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list of the members, given at the end of the preface of the work 

 published by them, the year after Fairchild's death. ^ This 

 book is one of great interest. Only one part was pubHshed, 

 others were to follow if the first met sufficient encouragement, 

 and that this was not so is much to be regretted. The following 

 gardeners were the joint authors : 



Thomas Fairchild. 

 Robert Furber. 

 John Alston. 

 Obadiah Lowe. 

 Phihp Miller. 

 John Thompson. 

 Christopher Gray. 

 Francis Hunt. 

 Samuel Driver. 

 Moses James. 



George Singleton. 

 Thomas Bickerstaff. 

 William Hood. 

 Richard Cole. 

 William Welstead. 

 Benjamin Whitmill. 

 Samuel Hunt. 

 John James. 

 Stephen Bacon. 

 William Spencer. 



Most of these men were nursery-gardeners, and all lived 

 in London or the suburbs : Furber at Kensington ; Alston, 

 Miller, and Thompson at Chelsea ; Lowe and Cole in Batter- 

 sea ; Fairchild, Whitmill, and Bacon at Hoxton ; Francis and 

 Samuel Hunt at Putney ; Gray at Fulham ;^ James in Lambeth ; 

 George Singleton at the Neat Houses ; and William Hood at 

 the Wheatsheaf near Hyde Park Corner. Every month, for 

 five or six years, this Society met at Newhall's Coffee-house in 

 Chelsea, or other convenient place near. Each member 

 brought some plants of his own growing, which were discussed 

 by the assembled gardeners. The names and descriptions 

 were then carefully registered. At the end of five or six years 

 they decided to have all the plants they had catalogued 

 " drawn and painted by an able hand." For this purpose 

 they engaged the services of Jacob van Huysum ; a good 

 artist, and brother of the famous Dutch flower painter. They 

 got together a large collection of drawings, and finally agreed 

 to publish them. The first part only, containing hardy shrubs, 

 appeared. It was to have been followed by other volumes, 



^ Catalogus Plantarum : A Catalogue of Trees, Shrubs, etc., for Sale in 

 the Gardens near London, by a Society of Gardeners, 1730. The British 

 Museum copy is under Fairchild's name, 452, h. 2. 



^ The Magnolia grandifiora was first planted in Gray's garden. See 

 Johnson's History of English Gardening, p. 202. 



