> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 427](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212469) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10785-1) LSID 10785-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1701960) QID Q1701960 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Tradescant, John (1608-1662), British naturalist, traveller, collector and gardener; in Virginia 1637 collecting material for his father's museum at South Lambeth; from 1638 gardener to Queen Henrietta Maria; continued the management and further development of his father's garden and museum. **Abbreviated name**: *Tradescant Jr.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Trad.*\] #### Herbarium and types The collections of the Tradescants came into the hands of Ashmole in 1674 and went to Oxford University (Ashmolean Museum) (see MacGregor et al., 1983). #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(2): 405; Backer p. 591; Barnhart 3: 397; BB p. 303; BM 5: 2130, 8: 1321; Bossert p. 405; Dawson p. 616; DNB 19: 1072-1074; Dryander 3: 97; DSB 13: 451 (b. 4 Aug 1608, d. 22 Apr 1662) (J. Ewan); Frank 3 (Anh.): 105; Jackson p. 414; Lasègue p. 10, 440, 504; ME 3: 332; PR 9434, ed. 1: 10397; Quenstedt p. 434; Rehder 1: 52; Tucker 3: 311. #### Biofile - Allan, M., The Tradescants 1964, 345 p., 27 pl. (main modern treatment); Plants that changed our gardens 15-43. 1974. - Anon., Monthl. Not. R. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh Sep 1968: 6-7. - Boulger, G.S., J. Bot. 56: 197-202. 1918 (Tradescant and Parkinson). - Coats, A.M., Huntia 2: 214. 1965 (portr.); The plant hunters 38, 45-46, 267. 1969. - Ducatel, A.C., Phil. Trans. \[R. Soc., London\] 63(2): 79-88. 1773. - Gager, C.S., Rec. Brooklyn Bot. Gard. 3: 77-87. 1914 (on Museum Tradescant). - Gunther, R.W.T., J. Bot. 58: 248. 1920 (first Tradescant gard. cat. 1634); Early Brit. bot. 272-273. 1922; Early Sci. Oxford 3: 280-292, 391-441. 1925 (Ashmolean Mus.). - Hadfield, M., Pioneers in gardening 21-25. 1957. - Healey, B.J., The plant hunters 18-41. 1975 (on T. and the Turkey purple Primrose). - Jarvis, P.J., J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 9(3): 223-250. 1979 (introd. trees cult. in Tradesc. South Lambeth garden 1629-1679). - Leith-Ross, P., The John Tradescants, 1984, 320 p. - MacGregor, A., ed., Tradescant's rarities: Essays on the foundation of the Ashmolean Museum 1683, with a catalogue of the surviving early collections, Oxford 1983. - Nicholson, J., Herbarist 48: 30-35. 1982; Amer. Horticulturist 62(2): 22-25. 1983. - Tradescant, J., Museum tradescantianum: or, a collection of rarities. Preserved at South Lambeth near London, London 1656, 179 p.; facsimile ed. London (Grismond) 1925, Old Ashmolean reprints (reprint without p. 74-178, *Cat. pl*., which, however, is reproduced by M. Allan, The Tradescants 276-312. 1964). - Watson, W., Phil. Trans. R. Soc. London 46: 668-669. 1749 (account of remains of T.'s South Lambeth garden). - Welch, M., The Tradescants and the foundation of the Ashmolean Museum, 1978, 14 p. - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 98. 1903 (on portr.). #### Note For John Tradescant senior (1570/75-1638), father of John T. (b. 1608) see Ewan, DSB, Desmond p. 616, and M. Allan, The Tradescants 1964. Many of the references under Tradescant junior actually deal to some extent with both father and son. Tradescant Sr. was the first western European botanist to visit Russia, see G.S. Boulger, J. Bot. 33: 33-38. 1895 and J. Hamel, Tradescant der Ältere 1618 in Rusland, St. Petersburg/Leipzig 1847. #### Eponymy *Tradescantella* J.K. Small (1903); *Tradescantia* Linnaeus (1753).