poe a FS CE. 
of Beaufort, has been obtained, R. S. means the 
fpecimens of Plants annually, in obedience to Sir 
Hans Sloane’s will, prefented by the Company cf: 
Apothecaries to: the Royal Society, part of which. 
are depofited in the library belonging to that body, 
in Somerfet Place, and the remainder in the Britith 
‘Mufeum. . , 3 
On the authority of various letters and other 
papers communicated by Michael Collinfon, Efq; 
many Plants are faid to have been - introduced by 
his father, Mr. Peter Collinfon, of Mill Hill. 
Mr. Knowlton, formerly Gardener to James She- 
rard, M.D. at Eltham, gave a variety of ufeful 
information, to which his name is always annexed, 
He died in 1782, at the age of go. | 
Mr. James Lee, nurferyman at the vineyard, 
Hammerfmith, who remembers. the gardens of 
Archibald duke cf Argyle, at Whitton, | near 
Hounflow, cultivated with much care and liberal — 
expence, has furnifhed the Author with a lift of the : 
Trees that were introduced by his Grace. 
From his own memory the Author ftates feveral 4 
Plants to have been cultivated by Mr. Ph. Miller, — 
in the Phyfick Garden at Chelfea, though no refe- — 
rence is made to them in his Gardener’s Diétionary. 
Some Plants are by tradition known to have 
3 been 
