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“Tn the cages, about two thousand varieties of Wheat; all the 
species of Aegilops; and numerous varieties of Barleys and Oats 
are grown annually. 
“The varieties of Wheat represent all the races and species of 
Wheat; these, and the Aegilops species were collected by Pro- 
fessor Percival from all parts of the world. 
“The garden is of interest to agriculturists, and is invaluable 
for supplying material for classes in Agricultural Botany. It also 
enables students to study the agricultural plants in various stages 
of growth. 
“There is a laboratory in the Garden which houses the collec- 
tion of dried specimens of the cereals, and affords opportunity for 
research on the plants growing in the garden. 
“An herbarium of the varieties of Wheat, and species of 
Aegilops is kept in the Agricultural Botany Department of the 
” 
— 
University. 
SOUTH LAMBETH (LONDON) 
Established, 1629, by John Tradescant, Senior, as a “ Physic 
Garden,” in South Lambeth, London, nearly opposite “ Spring 
Lane” on the east side of the South Lambeth road between Stock- 
well and Vauxhall. Lysons (Environs of London, 1: 330) cred- 
its this Garden as “ one of the first established in this Kingdom.” 
Sir William Watson (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal 
Society 46: 160) states that Tradescant’s Garden is, except that 
of John Gerard, author of the “ Herbal,” probably the first bo- 
tanical garden in England. Watson listed a few of the plants 
still surviving in 1749. (See Holborn.) 
UPTON 
Hortus UPToONENSIS 
Established: 1762. Area: About 5 acres. 
Note: This garden was established by John Fothergill, a noted 
physician in London from 1740 until his death in 1780. It was 
considered at the time as one of the most important in England. 
The ‘“ Green-House ” contained ‘“ upwards of 3400 distinct species 
of exotics” (Lettsom, Memoirs of Fothergill, p. 39). In the 
