‘Q74 | Notes relating to Botany, collected from 
nade: the trees were large, perhaps fifteen or twenty years old.. 
On each side the esplanade, at the head or tup of the park, he 
raised two mounts, and planted all with evergreens in April 
and May 1740. In the centre of each mount was a large cedar 
of Lebanon of twenty years growth, supported by four larches 
of eleven years growth. On the same area on the mount were 
planted four smaller cedars of Lebanon aged twenty years cach, 
supported by four larches aged six years; on the sides Virginian 
red cedars of three years growth, mixed with other evergreens, 
which now (anno 1760) make an amazingly fine appearance. 
In the years 1741 and 1742, from this very nursery he planted 
out forty thousand trees of all kinds, to embellish the woods at 
the head of the park on each side of the avenue to the lodge, and 
round the esplanade. It would occupy a large work to give a 
‘particular account of his building and planting. His stoves ex- 
ceed in dimensions all others in Europe. He dying, his vast 
collection of. rare exotic plants and his extensive nursery were 
- soon dispersed. re 
I paid to John Clarke for a thousand cedars of Lebanon, June 
the 8th, 1761, seventy-nine pounds six shillings, in. behalf of 
the Duke of Richmond. These thousand cedars were planted 
at five years old, in my sixty-seventh year, in March and April, 
ADR dL. aa Logs Sabor s m 
In September 1761 I was at Goodwood, and saw these cedars 
in a thriving state.. | b ! : | | 
. This day, October 20th, 1762, I paid Mr. Clarke for another 
large parcel of cedars for the Duke of Richmond. Itis very re» - 
markable that Mr. Clarke, a butcher at Barnes, conceived an 
opinion that he could raise cedars of Lebanon from cones from 
the great tree at Hendon-Place. He succeeded. perfectly, and 
' annually 
