ROBERT UVEDALE. 17 
Mr. Wasbourn [probably Uvedale’s son-in-law] has planted the 
tulips, which will be sold in bloom; and, I believe, the best way 
with the stove-plants will be to sell them in pairs, or so many ina 
lott together.” The “Catalogue of trees and shrubs” of the 
Society of Gardeners, 1780 (quoted by Loudon, Arboretum, p- 61), 
says of Uvedale that he “ did, by his great correspondence abroad, 
collect a very valuable parcel of plants . 
Robert’s hands. That this was so is improbable, as their present 
position as vols. 802 to 815 of Sloane’s Herbarium, almost the con- 
€, 
centre.” This collection, in fourteen thick volumes, having 
generally several specimens on a page, is as varied as it is ex- 
tensive. It is arranged according to Ray’s classification, and con- 
Rand, Dubois, Doody, Stonestreet, Sloane, William Vernon, and 
i EB . . 
his time is true, but that does not prevent his having had a 
James became M.A., Fellow of Trinity, and Rector of Bishop’s 
Cleeve, Gloucestershire; and Samuel, B.A., become Rector of 
of Langton, Lincolnshire, and died in 1799, leaving a son Robert, 
M.A., Vicar of Fotherby, in the same county, the contributor to the 
the Rector of Barking, in 1729 had a son Samuel, born apparently 
in Warwickshire, who became a Lieutenant in the Navy in 1747, 
Captain in 1760, and Commander of the ‘ Ajax’ in 1779; served 
* Richardson Correspondence, p. 194. + id.ap. fh 
Journan or Borany.—Vou. 29. [Janvary, 1891 J c 
