50 BOTANIC GARDIN OF SCllClNBRUNW. 



Pennfylvania, Virginia and Carolina. M. Boor along wilh M. 



Schopf^ made a journey inlo Florida, and from thenee pafled 

 Sewfalfinc to the ifiand of Providence. M. Bredemeyer returned from 

 plants arrive at Carolina, and pafling through England, arrived at Vienna itt 

 Vienna from _^ , ^ ., r , , .,- • i . r> 



thence, with M, J^ovember, 1784, with teveral very beaulitul plants. Boor, 



Bredemeyer. who during his flay at the Bahama iflands had collefted many 



rare plants, returned to Vienna in the month of September, 



1785. But the painter Moll and Doftor Stupiez were fepa- 



rated from their fellow travellers. 



Bredecueycr fent By the orders of the emperor, M. Bredemeyer, and the 



out again, gardener Schucht, went towards the end of the year 1784- to 



iflands and con- rejoin the dire6lor of this expedition, M. Marter, who re- 



tinent to the mained all this time in America ; they pafled over many of 



* the great iflands and a part of the continent as far as the mouth 



of the river Oronoco, 



Masy rare plants In 1788 they retarned by way of Amfterdam to Vienna, 



hlmindM.^''^^"^ brought back many rare and new plants. M. Marter 



Marter in 1788. alfo arrived the fame year, by the way of London and Brufleb 



wilh a new colleciion of plants, 



M. Boor and The emperor had not forgotten the lofs of the plants from 



Me of France. ^ ^^® '^^ °^ France, and commiflloned M. Boor and the gardener 



Scboll to go there, and touch on their way at the Cape of 



Good Hope. In the month of May 1786, they arrived at the 



Cape with the Dutch veffels ; M. Boor remained there till 



1787, and then departed by himfelf for the ifle of France and 



M. Boor returns that of Bourbon. In the month of January, 1788, he returned 



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— leaves fomc 20th of July in the fame year arrived at Vienna with a great 



behind at the number of magnificent vegetables; but as all the cafes could 



Seh«ll. not be brought in the veflel, the gardener remained at the 



^'^j|!L',"j.' Cape with the remainder. There has not fince been any pof- 



fibility of getting them to Vienna, as well as many other 



plants ; and the gardener Scholl remains at the Cape from that 



time, from whence he has feiit from time to time feeds and 



rootii. Befides this ihcreafe to the garden, the number of 



■ The plants of plants was augmented in diirerent manners. Thus, at the fale 



Schwenk ^f ^\^^ garden of Schwenk at the Hague, the emperor caufed 



M. Jatquin, the *'! the rare plants to be bought j and likewife M. Jacquin, the 



Ion, fends many foij, when he was on his travels over a great part of Europe, 



travels. ^"^ ' ^^^^ ^*-* Schqshbrunn many exotic plants which he found ia 



other gardens. ' i^ 



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