1{ ROBERT UVEDALE, 
suggestion of decay, a would a quite capable of living for 
another century or two. The follo ing measurements, given in 
Mr. Ford’s History of Enjield, are ‘tebe — The tree was in 
girth 
In 1821. In 1873. 
At the ground ... “os 20 16.0 In. 25 ft. 3 in. 
AGlino wy ee TE 19 ft. 7 in. 
At 3 ft. up see --: ~. 46 ft. 8 in. 16 ft. 2 in. 
twelfth voi of the Archeologia (1794), P: ee is “a — 
t by 
sixteenth, and is thus spoken of :— 
* Dr, ‘Uvedale, of Enfield, is a great lover of plants, and having 
an extraordinary art in managing them, is become master of the 
greatest and choicest collection of exotic greens that is perhaps 
anywhere in this land. His greens take up six or seven houses #e 
roomsteads, His orange trees and largest myrtles fill up h 
biggest house, and another house is filled with myriles of a ae 
size ; and those more nice and curious plants that need closer keep- 
ing are in warmer rooms, and some of them stoved when he thinks 
fit. His flowers are choice, his stock numerous, and his culture of 
them very methodical and curious ; but, to speak of the garden in 
the whole, it does not lie fine to please the eye, his delight and 
care lying more in the ordering particular plants than in the 
pleasing view and form of his garden 
Greenhouses and stoves were prob ably very rare in England 
before the close of the 17th cen mtury. Richardson, of North 
Bierley, and John Blackburne, of Warrington, were the first 
TsO 
Lord Petre, at Thorndon, Pi Peter Collinson, at Mill 
The garden is still extensive, though all traces of the green- 
rile or — with the elas of the cedar, be Bho: ere 
ean ha‘ 
No th Bierley 
Ahicn ng the Sloane MSS. (Sloane MS. 4064), are 17 letters from 
Uvedale, 10 addressed to Sloane himself, 1 to Petiver and the 
seems to have been his ordinary medical adviser. The earliest 
letter is dated March 25th, 1691, the latest, February 2nd, 1718; + 
* See — from Sloane, in Ray Correspondence (ed. 1848), pp. 158—9, 
+ "t Beliver died in April, 1718. 
