John Gerard
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John Gerard was an English herbalist with a large garden in Holborn, now part of London. His 1,484-page illustrated Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes, first published in 1597, became a popular
Frontispiece of 1636 edition of Herball
Virginia Potato
The Goose or Barnakle tree, that bears geese
John Goodyer
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John Goodyer was a botanist who lived in south-east Hampshire, England, all his life. He amassed a large collection of botanical texts which were bequeathed to Magdalen College, Oxford, and translated
John Gerard
…sometimes called Gerard emaculatus ("Gerard freed from blemishes"). Long ascribed this term to John Ray, but it is thought to have been used earlier by John Goodyer and others. Gerard may be seen as one of the founders of botany in the English language, despite being ill-educated was more interested as a herbalist…
SE Hampshire, R Gunther 1922
St Mary's Church, Buriton
Page from Goodyer's Dioscorides
Figure 1. Window in St Mary's Buriton