282 Notes relating to Botany. 
In the year 1727, my intimate friend Sir Charles Wager, first 
lord of the admiralty, brought plants from Gibraltar-Hill, of the 
Linaria procumbens Hispanica flore flavescente pulchre striato, la- 
biis nigro-purpureis, which I have yet in my, garden, anno 1761; 
and at the same time he brought the broad-leaved Teucrium, and 
a species of periwinkle, neither of which were in our gardens 
before; and some roots of what is called Hyacinths of Peru. 
In the year 1756, the famous tulip-tree in Lord Peterborough's 
garden at Parson's Green, near Fulham, died. It was about 
seventy feet high, the tallest tree in the ground, and perhaps a 
hundred years old, being the first tree of the kind that was 
raised in England. It had for many years the visitation of the 
curious to see its flowers, and admire its beauty, for it was as 
straight as an arrow, and died of age by a gentle decay. But it 
was remarkable, that the same year that this died, a tulip-tree 
which I had given to Sir Charles Wager flowered for the first 
time in his garden, which was opposite Lord Peterborough’s. 
This tulip-tree I raised from seed, and it was thirty years old when 
it flowered. 
April 8th, 1749. I removed from my house at Peckham, 
Surry, and was for two years in transplanting my garden to my 
house at Mill-Hill, called Ridgeway-House, in the parish of 
Hendon, Middlesex. 
Anno 1751. I raised the China or paper mulberry from seed 
given. me 5k: Dr. Mortimer. 
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