BOTANIC GARDEN OF SCHCEN3RUNM. 51 



The eraperor Jofej:^ alfo enlarged the hot-houfes, and Emp"0'- Joseph 



caufed others to be built. Jn order to bring back Schol.I the houfes and builds 



gardener to Vienna, with the plants which remained in his others. 



care at the Cape, the emperor Leopold, in 1791, ordered the Emperor Leop5ld 



gardener Bredenjeyer and young Van der Schot, (the Con of ^^^"^ ^^^^^^' 



hira who had been with M. Jacquin in the Eaft Indies) to fail Cape for Schoil, 



to the Ifl« of Fraitce, wher-e Cere had colleaed many plant^s — .^^^ 'f difap- 

 ,• ,, . . , , , , . , . , pointed 01 ms 



tor the imperial garden, and during their return they were to pafftgc. 



touch at the Cape to take up all thofe which remained with 

 Sqholl. The captain of the veflTel, in which the two garden- 

 ers bad taken their paflage put into Malaga ; where they dil- 

 covered in time that he had bad intentions with refpeft to 

 them; which obliged them to return to Vienna without per- 

 forming their commiffion. After the death of the emperor Francis II. 



Leopold, his fucceffor Francis the fecond had an hot-houfe J"'''? ^" ^f 



' houfe 255 feet 



conftruaed, 235 feet long, for the plants of the Cape. A new long for Cape '^ 



garden was alfo ellabliflied, of which Doaor Hoft was ap- ^^"^'^ '' 



pointed irifpedlor, and in which were carefully cultivated all added for plants 



the plants which grew in the fiates belonging to the houfe of*'^ ^^^ Auftrian 



Audria. ^*'"* 



By thefe details may be feen with what care this juftly ce- Valuable Bota- 



lebrated garden was augmented from the reign of Francis the "'*= publications 



fuii, and all aaonifliment will ceafe at the riches it contains, onchcnb'unn! 



and wliich have furnidied materials for different magmficent 



works on Botany, fuch as the Icones plantarum rariorum, pub- 



liflied by M. Jacquin, and above all, that which appeared a 



few years ago, under the title of Plantarum rariorum Horti 



Cctfarei Schosubrunnenfis defcriptiones et Icones, in two volumes 



folio, containing 150 coloured engravings. 



XL 



Litter from a Correfpondent on the Means of increafing the A£lion. 

 of Sound 9n the Organs of fuck as are partially deaf 



To Mr. NICHOLSON. 

 SIR 



/iXTHOUGH lam fo deaf as not to be able to hear the Sounds Iniperf 

 beating of a watch, unlefs it be put clofe to the ear. vet. if I fe^'y hqard . 



] if/Ti . * J * rendered audibjc 



place one end ot a Itick, or ot a metal rod between my teeth* through a foUd 



^ E 2 and ^P^'"^*^ ^° ^^* 



teeth. 



