the Manuscripts of the late Ptter ColUnson. 207 



Donax seuAruvdo flowered this year also (1762) at Mr 

 tjorclon's at Mile-End. ^ ' i "• ■^"'- 



October the 22d, 1746, I received the first double Spanish 

 ^oom (hat was ui England, sent me by mv Iriend Mr. 

 ^evveratNnremberg: ,t cost there a golden ducat ; and, 

 being planted in a pot nicely wickered all over, came From 

 thence down (he river Elbe to Hamburgh, from whence it 

 « as brought by the first .hip to London. I marched it on 

 the single flowered broom, and gave it to Gray and Gordon, 

 gardeners, and from them all have been supplied. 



Kv ^"''rl''"^^; J"""'^ '"''°^' ""^ Siberian martagon sent me 

 by Mr Dcm.doff proprietor of the Siberian iron mines, 

 flowerd tor the first time. May M, 1736. The flower is 

 but little reflexed and ,s, 1 think, the nearest to black of 

 any Hower that I know. 



In the year 1727, my intimate friend sir Charles Wager, 

 hrs lord ot the admiralty, brot.ght plants from Gibraltar- 



V °f /']<^^^"^""« prncumbens Hispnnka flore flaves- 

 cente pulchre stnato, labhs nigro-purpureis, which I have 

 yet in my garden, anno l7fil; and at the same time he 

 brought the broad-leaved Teucrium, and a species of peri- 

 winkle, neither of which were in our gardens before : and 

 some roots of what is called Hy acini hs of Peru. 



In the year 1756, the famous tulip-iree in Lord Peter- 

 borough s garden at Parson's Gr.^en, near Fulham, died It 

 was about seventy feet high, the tallest tree in the ground, 

 and perhaps a hundred years old, bema" the first" tree of 

 the kind that was ra„ed in England. It hlid for manv years 

 the visitation of the curious to see its fl.uvers, and admire 



ll u^' ! '^^ '^'' ^' '"■^'S*'' ^' ^" ^^••■•o"'' «n^ ^li^'fJ of 

 3ge by a gentle decay. But ,t was remarkable, that the 



same year that this died, a tulip-, ree which I had given to 



s.r Charles Wager fl(,wered for .he first time in his oarden, 



wn.ch was opposite lord Peterborough's This tufip-tree 



flowered ' ^'"^ '^ ''^' ^^'"'^^ y'^'' °^'' '''''^" '^ 



April Slh, 1749. I removed from my house at Pcckham, 



Surrey and was for two years m transplanting mv garden 



to my hot^e at Mill-HiH, called Kidgclvav-House, in the 



parish of Hendon, Middlesex. ' 



Anno 175 (. 1 raised the China or paper mulberry from 



gced gived me bv Dr. Mortimer. "^ 



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