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John Tradescant gained notoriety with his 1621 expedition to procure the Algiers apricot.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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John Tradescant gained notoriety with his 1621 expedition to procure the Algiers apricot.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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John Tradescant gained notoriety with his 1621 expedition to procure the Algiers apricot.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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John Tradescant the Elder was gardener there, and he put in so many wonderful varieties.
Day of the Dandelion Peter Pringle 2007
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Europe in 1628 by John Tradescant, the first from America.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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Smith also engraved John Tradescant, with his son, and their monument, 1793.
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton
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It is to old John Tradescant we are indebted for the earliest record of this plant.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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That it was, perhaps, an article of curiosity rather than use in the middle of the seventeenth century, is evident in the fact of its being mentioned in the "_Musæum Tradescantianum, or Collection of Rarities_, preserved at South Lambeth near London, by John Tradescant." 12mo.
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John Tradescant the son made a list of them, and though Oxford ungratefully hid the collection in an outhouse and only discovered it again in 1882, many of the curiosities he mentions move undergraduates to surprise to-day.
Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912
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Saltero is descended in a right line, not from John Tradescant, as he himself asserts, but from the memorable companion of the Knight of
All About Coffee 1909
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