282 Notes relating to Botant/. 



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 jiore Jiaiescente pulchre sfriato, la- 

 biis nigro-purpureis, which I have yet in my garden, anno I76I ; 

 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 by Dr. Mortimer. 



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