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remains were published under the title of 'Reliquiae 

 Rudbeckianse,' folio, 1789. 



Dillenius also took him more carefully through the 

 botanic garden, which is thus described in the Oxford 

 guide-book of a little later period. 1 l In the garden are 

 two elegant and useful greenhouses, built by the univer- 

 sity for exotics, of which there is as considerable a col- 

 lection as can be met with anywhere. One of the large 

 aloes, after growing to the height of twenty-one feet, 

 was blown down in 1750. In the quarters within the 

 yew hedges is the greatest variety imaginable of such 

 plants as require no artificial heat to nourish them, all 

 ranged in their proper classes, and numbered. Also 

 two magnificent yew trees, cut in the form of pedestals, 

 but of enormous size, with a flower-pot on the top, and 

 a plant, as it were, growing out of it. The pineapples 

 raised in the hot-house have nearly (!) the same deli- 

 cious flavour as those raised in warmer climates. The 

 Earl of Danby purchased the ground (containing five 

 acres) of Maudlin College, and gave it to Oxford as 

 a physic garden.' [The gateway is by Inigo Jones.] 

 c This useful foundation has been much improved by 

 the late Dr. Sherard, who brought from Smyrna a 

 valuable collection of plants. He built and furnished a 

 library for botanical books. One end of this building 

 hath within a few years been altered into a convenient 

 apartment for the professor, whose salary is paid out of 

 the interest of 3,0002., given by Dr. Sherard for that 



1 1761. 

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