42 HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF TREES. PART I. 
garden; and of this you meet with a great variety of examples in 
the treatises of Dr. Plukenet, Hermann, and Commelyn. Botani- 
cal much more even than other worldly affairs are subject to 
great fluctuations, and this arises not only from the natural 
decay of vegetables, and their being injured by the variety of 
seasons, but also from the genius and disposition of the pos- 
sessors of them. So, here, upon the death of Bishop Compton, 
all the green-house plants and more tender exotic trees were, as 
I am informed by Sir Hans Sloane, given to the ancestor of 
the present Earl Tylney at Wanstead. And as the successors 
of this bishop in the see of London were more distinguished 
for their piety and learning than for their zeal in the promotion 
of natural knowledge, the curiosities of this garden were not 
attended to, but left to the management of ignorant persons; 
so that many of the hardy exotic trees, however valuable, were 
removed to make way for the more ordinary productions of the 
kitchen-garden.” (Phil. Trans., xvii. 243.) ' 
Collinson, speaking of Bishop Robinson, Dr. Compton’s suc- 
’ cessor, says, he was a man of “ no such taste” as Bishop Comp- 
ton. ‘ He allowed his gardener to sell what he pleased, and ~ 
often spoiled what he could not otherwise dispose of. Many 
fine trees, come to great maturity, were cut down, to make room 
for produce for the table. Furber of Kensington, and Gray of 
Fulham, augmented their collections from this source, with 
plants not otherwise to be procured.” 
The following are the principal trees and shrubs which Sir 
William Watson found in the bishop’s garden in 1751: — 
Acerinee. Acer rubrum, platandides; Negtndo fraxini- 
folium. 
Hippocastanee. Pavia rubra. 
Terebinthadcee. FPistacia officindrum, Rhis typhina. 
Legumindse. Robinia Psetd- Acacia, Gleditschia triacanthos, 
C¥tisus alpinus, Cércis Siliquastrum. 
Amygdalee. Cérasus Laurocérasus. 
Pomadcee. Méspilus prunifolia ? 
Ericdcea. A’rbutus Unedo. 
Edbendcee. Diospyros virginiana. 
Oledcee. O'rnus europea, rotundifolia ; Syringa pérsica 
var. laciniata. 
Laurinee. Latrus Benzoin. 
Ulmacee.  Ceéltis. 
Jugléndee. Juglans nigra. 
Cupultfere. Quercus Suber, Flex, alba; Corylus rostrata ? 
Conifere. Cedrus Libani, Larix europea; Pinus Pinea, 
Pinaster; Abies Picea; Cupréssus, the male cypress, the 
female cypress ; Juniperus virginiana. 
Smildcee. Riscus hypoglossum, racemosus. 
