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My Ld. Hatton's letters with seeds. Morines plants. Dr. Morisons 2 Corre- 

 spondence Exper: Phy: Brit: Deliver Anderson's letter, gz/. way of Corre- 

 spondence. Goades buisinesse (?). 



Sends Ld. L. at Tibr: All maner of seeds 



Monday Committee what plants you think you 



Kay pro horse, Statim. Dubble flourd Apple 



Proyne Wild, Anderson Fhyt. Str. 111. Black Cherry 



pro Stone, Sedum maius arborescens 



Ye preparacon of sublimatum Cu- Jasminum Indicum luteum 



pum vide ye Paper. Seeds sent by Phyllitis multifida foliis crispis 



Cadell dead since in these partes, 



which I hope you have. 1^. Letter in Milk Street finds mee 



Parthenium 

 Lilac 

 Answere both Dr. Morisons letters 



have 



I have all Plant bookes for dressing Pinax, what bookes I am about. 



[How MS. bound with Goodyer MS. il, f. 169.] 



Dr. M ORISON was at this time abroad in charge of the Duke of 

 Orleans' garden at Blois. Full of energy and enthusiasm for his 

 subject, he wrote to How about the Phytologia, and sent him 

 a pressing request for a number of plants which we have printed on 

 P- ?iSS- -ff How ever executed the order, some of the additions then 

 made to the Duke's garden should appear in the Catalogues ^ that 

 were printed in 1653 and 1669. 



Lord Hatton transmitted his interest in Botany to his son 

 Charles, who acquired the Boccone MSS. that were edited by 

 Morison in 1674. 



MORINE may have been the ' ordinary gardener ' of Paris who 

 became ' one of the most skilful and curious persons in France. . . . 

 His garden is of an exact oval figure, planted with cypress cut flat 

 & set as even as a wall : the tulips, anemones, ranunculuses, crocuses, 

 etc., are held to be of the rarest, and draw all the admirers of that 

 kind to his house during the season '.^ 



MS. Additions by How to his copy of the ' Phytologia Britannica '. 

 Between 16^0 and 16^6. 

 A certain number of the plant-names and notes that How wrote 

 in his interleaved Phytologia have been quoted by Druce and others. 

 They are of sufificient historical importance to be worth printing in 

 full — or at least as far as they are legible. 



* Brunyer, Hortiis Blesensts, 1653 ; Morison, Hortus Regius Blesensis, 1669. 

 ^ Evelyn, Diary ^ 2 April 1644. The plants that Tradescant had from him in 

 1631 are noted on p. 331. 



