Botanist. He received recognition as a 17th-century British naturalist, who was the son of John Tradescant the Elder, the naturalist and gardener for Charles I. Tradescant the younger traveled even further afield than his father, visiting Virginia three times. He introduced to England the Magnolia tree, the bald cypress, the Tulip tree and a Yucca plant, and also increased the collection at the Ark with artifacts from America. Inheriting his father's botany skills, John Tradescant followed in his father's footsteps as "Keeper of the Gardens, Vines, and Silkworms at Oatlands Palace of Charles I and Henrietta Maria's royal homes." At the suggestion of Elias Ashmole, he began to catalogue the collection at the Ark, and the Museum Tradescantium was the first museum catalogue published. Tradescant willed that the collection was to go to his widow on his death but Elias Ashmole obtained the collection by deed of gift and established the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford with the collection. Some of these original items can still be seen in that museum and Ashmole is buried at the Museum of Garden History with his father. The tomb of the Tradescants stands beside the knot garden near that of Captain Bligh of the Bounty, and is covered in carvings representing their interests in life which marked them out as curious men
Botanist. He received recognition as a 17th-century British naturalist, who was the son of John Tradescant the Elder, the naturalist and gardener for Charles I. Tradescant the younger traveled even further afield than his father, visiting Virginia three times. He introduced to England the Magnolia tree, the bald cypress, the Tulip tree and a Yucca plant, and also increased the collection at the Ark with artifacts from America. Inheriting his father's botany skills, John Tradescant followed in his father's footsteps as "Keeper of the Gardens, Vines, and Silkworms at Oatlands Palace of Charles I and Henrietta Maria's royal homes." At the suggestion of Elias Ashmole, he began to catalogue the collection at the Ark, and the Museum Tradescantium was the first museum catalogue published. Tradescant willed that the collection was to go to his widow on his death but Elias Ashmole obtained the collection by deed of gift and established the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford with the collection. Some of these original items can still be seen in that museum and Ashmole is buried at the Museum of Garden History with his father. The tomb of the Tradescants stands beside the knot garden near that of Captain Bligh of the Bounty, and is covered in carvings representing their interests in life which marked them out as curious men
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