208 Notes relating to Botany, collected from 



his age, twentv-four full grown elms about sixtv feet high 

 and two feel diameter. All grew flnelv, and now are not 

 known from the old trees they were planted to match. In 

 the year 1738 he planted the great avenue of elms up the 

 park from the house to the esplanade. The trees were large, 

 perhaps fifteen or twenty years old. On each side the espla- 

 nade, at the head or top of the park, he raised two mounts, 

 and planted all with evergreens in April and May 1740. \n 

 the centre of each mount was a large cedar of Lebanon of 

 twenty years growth, supported by four larehesof eleven vears 

 crowih. On the sanie area on the mount were planted four 

 smaller cedars of Lebanon aged twenty years each, sup- 

 ported bv four larches aged six years. On the sides Virgi- 

 nian red cedars of three years growih, mixed with other 

 evergreens, which now (anno l/GO) nuke an amazingly 

 line appearance. 



In ihe years 1741 and 1742, from this very nursery, he 

 planted out forty ihou-and trees of all kinds, to embellish 

 ih.e woods at the head of the park on each side of the avenue 

 to the lodj:c, and round the esplanade. It would occupy a 

 larc;e work to give a particular account of hi? building and 

 planting. His stoves exceed in dimensions all others in 

 Europe. He d\ ing, his vast collection of rare exotic plants, 

 and his extensive nursery, were soon dispersed. 



I paid to John Clarke for a thousand cedars of Lebanon, 

 June ihe 8th, I7fil, seventy-nine pounds six shillings, in 

 behalf of the duke of Richmond. These thousand cedars 

 were planted at five years old. in my sixty-seventh year, in 

 March and April, anno li6l. 



In September l76l I was at Goodwood, and saw these 

 cedars in a thriving state. 



This dav, Oeiob^er eoth, 1 762, I paid Mr. Clarke for an- 

 other larce parcel of cedars for the duke of Richmond. It 

 is very remarkable that Mr. Clarke, a butcher at Barnes, 

 conceived an opinion that he could raise cedars of Lebanon 

 from cones from the great tree at Hendon- place. He suc- 

 ceeded perfectly; and annually raised then) in such quanti- 

 ties, that he supplied the nurserymen, as well as abundance 

 of noblemen and gentlemen, with cedais of LebaiKm : and 

 hesuiceeded not oidv in cedars, but he had a great knack in 

 raisins; the small maonnlia, Warner's Cape jessamine, and 

 other exotic seeds. He built a large stove for pine apples, 8cc. 



Any person who has curiosity enough may go to Good- 

 wood in Susi-ex, and see the date and progress of those 

 cedars, which were at planting five years o^d. The duke's 

 father was a great planter j but the young duke much ex- 

 ceeds 



