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    John Tradescant the Elder ( /trəˈdɛskənt/; c. 1570s – 15–16 April 1638), father of John Tradescant the Younger, was an English naturalist, gardener, collector...
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  • John Tradescant may refer to: John Tradescant the elder (1570s–1638) his son John Tradescant the younger (1608–1662) This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    John Tradescant the Younger ( /trəˈdɛskənt/; 4 August 1608 – 22 April 1662), son of John Tradescant the Elder, was a botanist and gardener. The standard...
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    Garden Museum (category Museums in the London Borough of Lambeth)
    John Tradescant the Elder and the Younger to the churchyard, and were inspired to create the Museum of Garden History. It was the first museum in the...
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    Syringa vulgaris (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    and the 19th century botanist John Loudon was of the opinion that the Persian lilac was introduced into English gardens by John Tradescant the elder in...
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    by John Tradescant the elder and his son in a building called The Ark, and a botanical collection in the grounds of the building. Turret House, the family...
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    wandering trad. The genus is named after the English naturalists and explorers John Tradescant the Elder (c. 1570s – 1638) and John Tradescant the Younger (1608–1662)...
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    Severodvinsk (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    visited by John Tradescant the elder, who conducted a survey of an island situated opposite the monastery. This island became known to the British as "Rose...
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    Hatfield House (category Prime ministerial homes in the United Kingdom)
    coverage. The gardens, covering 42 acres (170,000 m2), date from the early 17th century and were laid out by John Tradescant the elder. Tradescant visited...
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    1609. The next historically verifiable home of the manuscript was in the museum of John Tradescant, the elder, who then passed it on to his son John Tradescant...
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  • know the living plant better, than just press and dry the specimen." John Tradescant the elder (ca 1570s–1638) and his son, John Tradescant the younger...
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    out by John Tradescant the Elder, were redesigned twice in the 18th century. First, under the London banker James Colebrooke, (who bought the estate from...
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    Mouseion (redirect from Temple of the Muses)
    catalogue of the 17th century collection of John Tradescant the Elder and his son John Tradescant the Younger was the founding core of the Ashmolean Museum...
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    form the foundation of the British Museum. John Tradescant the Elder (circa 1570s–1638) was a gardener, naturalist, and botanist in the employ of the Duke...
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    that both John Tradescant the Younger and his father, John Tradescant the Elder, were intended by Linnaeus. The ending "-on" may derive from the neuter Greek...
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    Tradescant the Elder (c. 1570s – 1638) and John Tradescant the Younger (1608–1662), who introduced many new plants to English gardens. Tradescant the...
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    their Tradescant relations are now attributed. Thomas also worked for the Crown between 1629 and 1637. Oliver de Critz (1626–51) was a son of John the Younger...
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  • Peter Thunberg Agostino Todaro John Torrey Joseph Pitton de Tournefort John Tradescant the elder John Tradescant the younger Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter...
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    Theophrastus Lucullus Tiberius Pliny the Elder Pliny the Younger Pacello da Mercogliano John Tradescant the elder and his son of the same name Carolus Clusius André...
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    George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    as its subject the famous gardener John Tradescant the Elder, the Duke appears halfway through the novel as the object of Tradescant's love. Another historical...
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    salutiferous to mankind." The pomegranate had been introduced as an exotic to England the previous century, by John Tradescant the Elder, but the disappointment...
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    already grown by John Tradescant the Elder, and C. × loretii, a 19th-century introduction. Cultivars (those marked agm have gained the Royal Horticultural...
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    Lambeth Palace (category Houses in the London Borough of Lambeth)
    monuments were preserved, including the tombs of some of the gardeners and plantsmen John Tradescant the elder and his son of the same name, and of Admiral William...
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    stopped at the Cape of Good Hope. In 1631, the English gardener John Tradescant the elder bought seeds from Rene Morin in Paris and introduced the plant to...
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    Meopham (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    Archbishop of Canterbury (1327–1332) John Tradescant the Elder (c. 1570–1638) John Tradescant the Younger (1608–1662), son of the above, both botanists In Meopham...
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  • Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (born 1581) April 15/16 – John Tradescant the elder, English botanist (born c. 1570s) October 21 – Willem Blaeu, Dutch...
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    Hatfield, Hertfordshire (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    aviator and university founder, learned to fly at Hatfield. John Tradescant the elder (c. 1570s–1638), botanist, gardener and naturalist, was head gardener...
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    dried rays. In the middle of the seventeenth century, John Tradescant the elder created a wunderkammer (called Tradescant's Ark) in which he displayed,...
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    objects he had acquired from the gardeners, travellers and collectors John Tradescant the elder and his son of the same name. The collection included antique...
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    Danby, John Tradescant the Elder having turned down the position. Bobart arrived by 1641. He had the right to sell fruit and vegetables from the garden, which...
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