Note 63 — Chapter III · TURNER’S HERBAL AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE FOREIGN HERBALISTS

The Duke of Somerset was himself keenly interested in botanical investigations, and Turner frequently refers to the Duke’s garden. It was during this time that Turner had his own garden at Kew. That he sat in the House of Commons is generally supposed from a passage in his Spiritual Physik, and this view is sustained by the character of the Hunter in his Romish Wolfe.