70 HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF TREES. " ‘PARTE 
himself and family; else of necessity it must have fallen a prey 
to the booksellers.” Date 1731. 
Mr. John Ellis was remarkable for his exertions in devising 
plans for importing acorns and other nuts and seeds of 
American trees, which through his means were thus brought 
over in large quantities. He was a contemporary of Collinson, 
and, like him, was early in life engaged in merchandise; but 
he afterwards became agent for West Florida in 1764, and for 
Dominica in 1770. He had a very extensive correspondence, 
and was the means of introducing many articles of natural 
history, besides trees and shrubs. He was the author of 
The Natural History of Corallines, The Natural History of 
Zoophytes, &c., and established the genera Halésia, Gordonia, 
Gardénia, and others. As a proof of the amiable feeling that 
subsisted at that time between English and French naturalists, 
may be mentioned, that, during the war, Duhamel, who was then 
(1757) at the head of the French marine establishment, promised 
to Ellis and Collinson to return whatever plants were taken by 
the French. John Ellis died in 1776, aged 66. 
Alexander Garden, M.D., was a Scotch physician, settled at 
Charlestown, in South Carolina, where he married in 1755, and 
died in 1791, in his 52d year. He sent home a number of 
American trees and shrubs, including the Ptelea, the fringe 
tree, several species of Magnolia, Zamia integrifolia, &c. Lin- 
nzeus intended the loblolly bay, called Lasianthus (now Gor-— 
donza Lasianthus), to be named after him, which honour Dr. | 
Garden solicited ; but, unfortunately, his letter arrived too late by 
a month, Mr. Ellis having, in the meantime, named it Gorddnia. 
Another genus, the Gardénza, commemorates the name of this 
ardent naturalist. 
Subsequently to the year 1730, foreign trees and shrubs appear 
to have been planted in various country seats, and more espe- 
cially in those laid out in the modern style. Among the earliest 
of these are included Stowe, and part of the scenery at Blenheim. 
At the former are some fine old cypresses, cedars, and acacias, 
planted in Brown’s time; and in the latter were, till lately, the 
oldest deciduous cypresses and Lombardy poplars in England. 
We believe the very first place in which the Dutch style was 
made to give way to the English manner was Corby Castle, in 
Cumberland, which began to display the new taste so early as 
1706 (Warner); but it does not appear that many foreign treés 
were planted. | 
Pains Hill was planted by the Honourable Charles Hamilton, 
sixth son of the Earl of Abercorn, about the same time that 
Woburn Farm was laid out, viz. 1735. Mr. Hamilton not only 
indulged the public with a sight of his improvements at Pains 
Hill; but allowed strangers the use of low chairs, drawn by 
