John Tradescant the Elder

Currently, we are standing in the original part of the collection.

So we're standing in the Tradescant.

collection and it's called the ashmolean story we're on level minus one so we're sort of really down near the cafe but down in the rafters almost and essentially we're in like a cabinet of curiosity so it tells the story of what museums used to be

you've taken me to look at A bone.

It was introduced into Spanish America in the late 16th century and into California by Spanish settlers in 1769.

What's kind of interesting is the pomegranate was introduced as an exotic to England in the 17th century by John Tradescant, but it didn't do overly well in Britain.

With British weather, go figure.

But what's, again, kind of really interesting here is at the same time that the Spanish are spreading pomegranates to the Americas, the English start to do the same because they start to bring the plant to the American colonies.