The collection, something of a sensation, came to be known as Tradescant's Ark and served as the nucleus of what is today the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. From Wordnik.com. [How Their Garden Did Grow] Reference
But plants were only part of the Tradescant collecting impulse. From Wordnik.com. [How Their Garden Did Grow] Reference
Tradescant, the father, died an old man; Switzer, about 80; Sir Thomas. From Wordnik.com. [On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions] Reference
For the purpose, Tradescant designed siege trenches rather than knot gardens. From Wordnik.com. [How Their Garden Did Grow] Reference
I'm up to eight of her books now -- the historical ones following TOBG, plus the two novels about the Tradescant gardening family loved those and Fallen Skies. From Wordnik.com. [Book Giveaway: THE WHITE QUEEN by Philippa Gregory] Reference
Both the elder Tradescant (1570-1638) and the younger (1608-62) were plant collectors and, in succession, gardeners to Charles I at his palace of Oatlands, not far from London. From Wordnik.com. [How Their Garden Did Grow] Reference
Inhaling its scent, I remembered Tradescant had no sense of smell. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
This was the same Hesther Tradescant who erected the Tradescant monument in. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 79, May 3, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
Tradescant father and son, these lines occur in the course of the inscription. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
Tradescant, in 1656, as 'a dodar from the island Mauritius; it is not able to flie, being so big. '. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852] Reference
Perhaps such an utensil might have been among the dishes, &c. mentioned in the Catalogue of the Tradescant. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 76, April 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
In the knot garden we spotted a Moss rose, related to the Centifolia rose that Tradescant had bought in Haarlem. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
When the elder Tradescant first settled in England, he formed a curious collection of natural history, coins, medals, and a great variety of. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 79, May 3, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
The following is a list of the portraits of the Tradescant family now in the Ashmolean Museum; both father and son are in these portraits called. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 79, May 3, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
The Tradescant epitaph reads, in part: "Both Gardiners. From Wordnik.com. [How Their Garden Did Grow] Reference
(probably in the handwriting of the elder Tradescant) which purports to be. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 79, May 3, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
(Sir Joshua's) Baptism -- Tradescant 513. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 213, November 26, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] Reference
Tradescant ". From Wordnik.com. [The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2] Reference
Tradescant, John. From Wordnik.com. [Gossip in a Library] Reference
Portraits -- Tradescant -- Arthur's Seat and Salisbury. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 68, February 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
Rex -- Tradescant -- Moore's Almanack -- The Mistletoe -- St John's Bridge. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 78, April 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
Steevens and William Stevens -- Tradescant -- Origin of Harlequins -- "Predeceased" and "Designed". From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 76, April 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
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