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again in 1768, in another copy of that work; and the following 
extract from those made in 1764 is abridged from a communication 
by A. B. Lambert, Esq., to the Linnean Transactions, vol. x.: — 
** The gardeners about London in 1712,” he says, ‘ were 
- remarkable for fine cut greens, and clipt yews in the shapes of 
birds, dogs, men, ships, &c. Mr. Parkinson, in Lambeth, was 
much noticed for these things, and he had besides a few myrtles, 
oleanders, and evergreens. At that time, Mr. Rench, who 
lived behind the Earl of Peterborough’s at Parson’s Green, was 
famous for tulip trees: he began the collecting of evergreens, 
arbutuses, phillyreas, &c.; and from him came the gold and 
silver hedgehog holly. He gave rewards for accidental varieties 
of the common holly, and thus obtained the saw-leaved variety, 
and a variegated holly which bears his name. He and Parkin- 
son died about 1724. Brompton Park and Hunt’s at Putney 
were fine nurseries. In 1764, Chelsea Garden excelled all the 
others in Europe for variety of plants. In 1759, there were, in 
the American grove at Goodwood, two fine great magnolias 
{M. grandiflora], about 20 ft. high, that flowered annually.” 
Collinson adds, that his tree of this species flowered in 1760, which 
he had raised from seed 20 years before. ‘ Lord Petre, he con- 
tinues, “ who was the ornament and delight of the age he lived in, 
removed, in the spring of 1734, twenty-four full-grown elms about 
60 ft. high, and 2 ft. in diameter: all grew finely, and now 
(1764) are not known from the old trees they were planted to 
match.” In 1738, he planted an avenue of elms 15 cr 20 years 
oid, cedars 20 years old, and larches 11 years old. John Clarke, a 
butcher at Barnes, was famous for raising cedars from seed, from 
the great tree at Hendon Place; and also for raising plants of 
the small magnolia [M. gladca]. Clarke sold a thousand cedars 
in 1761, five years old, for 792. 6s., to the Duke of Richmond, 
which were all planted at Goodwood, and did well. The cedars 
at Whitton were all raised from seed by the Duke of Argyle in 
1725. In 1762, most of the duke’s rare trees and shrubs were 
removed to Kew, then belonging to the Princess of Wales, and 
under the direction of Lord Bute. Mr. Vernon, a Turkey 
merchant at Aleppo, brought the weeping willow from the river 
Euphrates to his seat at Twickenham Park, where Collinson 
saw it growing in 1748. This was the original of all the weep- 
ing willows in our gardens. [In the Hortus Kewensis, the 
weeping willow is stated to have been cultivated at Hampton 
Court in 1692.) In 1761, Mr. Sharpe, at South Lodge, in 
Enfield Chase, invited Mr. Collinson to dine with him, and 
to see the Cornus flérida in flower. In 1746, Mr. Collinson 
received the first double Spanish broom from Mr. Brewer of 
Nuremberg. In 1756, the famous tulip tree in Lord Peter- 
borough’s garden at Parson’s Green, near Fulham, died. It 
