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X. 



i4ccount of the Imperial Botanic Garden of Schanhrunn, in the 

 Vicinity of Vienna.* 



In 1753 the emperor, Francis the firfl:, caufed a portion of The garden efta- 

 ground behind the garden of the caftle of Schcenbrunn to be by^^ancisY."* 

 prepared for the cultivation of exotics, and of plants remark- 

 able tor iheir rarity or beauty. By the advice of the cele- Put under the 



brated Van Swieten, the famous florid Adrien Steekhoven was care of Adrien 



Steckhoven, 

 iHvited to SclitKitbrunn from Leyden, who caufed many green- — VanderSchot 

 houfes to be conrtrucied there, with a very larc:;e and beautiful ^^^ ^^^ gardenes 



, , r 1 • 1 I M 1. Ayr • —brings to It 



hot-houle, and various other buildings. At th'-r lame time ^j^^y exotics 

 JRichard Vander Schot, of Delft, was named firft gardener, ffom I^oll^"'^ 

 and employed to convey to Vienna a great number of rare and 

 exotic plants, brought up in different parts of Holland, and 

 thus at the end of one year the garden was already rich in 

 valuable plants. 



M. Jacquin, who was then at Vienna, went to vifit the M, Jacquin fent 

 garden of Sclwenbrunn, toclafs thofe plants which had not >et ^°j|^^^p]j,^^ 

 leceived a fpecific denomination j on which occafion he be- 

 came knowi> to th€ emperor, who propofed to him to travel 

 at his expence on the continent of South America, and in the 

 ;American illands, to enrich the garden with plants from the 

 moft diftant countries. Accompanied by the gardener Van 

 der Schot, he departed from Vienna in 1754; and in pading 

 through Italy was joined by Jesm Buonamici and Ferdinand Account of his 

 Barculli, who were entrufted with the zoological part of the proceedings in. 

 .. . ... - r . • . .theV/eftlndia 



Expedition, by which it was propoled to improve the royal iflands. 



"menagerie, and the cabinet of natural hiftory at the fame time. 

 After having vifited the, ifiands of Martinico, of Grenada, St. 

 Vinqent, St. Euftatia, St. Chriaopher, St. Martin, St. Bar- 

 tholomew, Aruba, Cuba, Caracca^ and Jamaica, he returned 

 to Vienna in 1759. From Auguft 1757 to the middle- of 

 VJS9j M. Jacquin could do little for the advancement of Sci- 

 .ence, having been ill of a liealery for four months, of which 

 He was at laft cured at Jamaica. The war which then com- 

 *»eiic«d between England. and Francei.alfo deranged his tra- 



"y'Magafm'EncjcIopedlque, T.6, p. 552. 



vels,_ 



