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John Tradescant

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Noun1.John Tradescant - English botanist who was one of the first to collect specimens of plants (1570-1638)


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John Tradescant and his son, also John, ranged over the world finding botanical wonders and bringing them back to a range of clients including Charles I.
95 1-800-869-5677 Few may have heard of the John Tradescants, father and son of the late 1500s-1600s who worked for a series of patrons supervising some of the most notable gardens of the 17th century: Prudence Leith-Ross remedies this omission with The John Tradescants: Gardeners To The Rose And Lily Queen.
At present he is at work on a cultural study of seventeenth-century England focusing on the poet Robert Herrick, the engraver Wenceslaus Hollar, and the gardeners and collectors, John Tradescant and son.
 
 
 
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