56 HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF TREES. PART I, 
was about 70 ft. high, and perhaps 100 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. It was as straight as an arrow, and died of age, by 
a gentle decay.” (Abridged from Mr. Collinson’s paper, as quoted — 
by Mr. Lambert, in the Linnean Transactions, vol. x. p.282.) 
On a blank leaf of another copy of Miller’s Dictionary, Col- 
linson adds the following names of proprietors of gardens to the 
above list: — Reynardson, at Hillingdon, near Uxbridge, whose 
fine collection, he says, was sold to Mr. Robert Walpole; 
Mr. Parker, near Croydon; Dr. Lumley Lloyd, at Cheam in 
Surrey, ‘*‘ who gave his house and great collection of plants to 
the Duke of Bedford;” Sir Harry Trelawney, of Buttshead, 
near Plymouth, who had a great collection of hardy trees and 
shrubs; Sir Harry Goodrick, at Ribstone in Yorkshire, who 
was a great collector and naturaliser of exotic trees ; Mr. Charles 
Dubois, at Mitcham, remarkable for his collection both of house 
and of hardy plants; and Mr. Blackburne, at. Orford, near 
Warrington in Lancashire [a catalogue of whose garden was 
published in 1779], who had a great collection, particularly of 
stove plants, kept in the highest degree of perfection. Collinson 
also mentions, in one of the memoranda in this volume, that 
Tradescant junior was the first who propagated American plants 
for sale in England. _ 
In Collinson’s garden at Mill Hill, the Periploca grz'ca, and 
numerous other trees and shrubs, as will be seen by the list at the 
end of this section, flowered for the first time in England. It 
was kept up some years after Peter Collinson’s death, by his 
son, Michael Collinson. Afterwards it fell into the hands of 
Richard Anthony Salisbury, Esq., F.R.S. About the end of 
the century it was purchased by the protestant dissenters, for 
a foundation grammar school: the house was turned into 
lodging-rooms for the boys, and Collinson’s stable fitted up as 
a chapel. A new house has since been built. 
On examining the grounds which formerly belonged to Ridge- 
way House, in January, 1835, several trees and shrubs planted 
in the time of Collinson were found to be still remaining. A 
platanus 40 ft. high, and 1} ft. in diameter at a foot from the 
ground; a deciduous cypress 48 ft. high, and 13 ft. in diameter ; 
four pinasters, the diameter of the largest of which was 8 ft.; two of 
Pinus Cémbra with trunks nearly 2 ft. in diameter, and from 50 to 
60 ft. high, which must be the finest specimens of this tree in Eng- 
land ; a tulip tree 30 ft. high, diameter 9 in.; and two cedars with 
clear trunks between 30 and 40 ft. high, and diameters of nearly 
4 ft., the branches of which cover a space of 60 ft. in diameter. 
Near the spot where Collinson’s house stood (for it is now pulled 
down) there is a cedar 60 ft. high, with its lowest branches re- 
clining on the ground, and covering a space of 70 ft. in diameter. © 
