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bearing the family and genera represented. The plants are ar- 
a 
continued my work. On July 5, I sailed on the steamer “ Hill 
len,” arriving in New York, ae ust 18, IQO1. 
Respectfully Sear 
Percy WILs 
. ice hid 
AN OLD PHYSIC GARDEN IN NEW AMSTERDAM. 
So much has been written of Dr. Hosack’s Botanic Garden on 
Murray Hill at the beginning of the 19th century, that it may 
‘ Physick ae was a forerunner of our more ambitious insti- 
tutions. 
Adriaen Van der Donck, “ Doctor of both Laws,” came to 
another of the Dutch nes bounded the estate on the east. 
bout the year 1653 this enterprising | Dutchman wrote a* 
*A Description of the New Netherlands is (as t lhe same at the pre present — 
written Bas Adriaen Van der Donck. The Second Editi a a Ma 
Cou Anno Domini, Reprinted from the de by the Hi fate 
miah ae in the Collections of the New Vork Historical Society, a ee 
Vol. 1, pages 125-242, 1841 
