GARDENS OF CELEBRITIES 
of that day, made a catalogue of the rare plants at Fulham when 
the gardens were at the height of their fame and interest. In his 
list are the ‘‘ Norway Maple,” the ‘‘ Ash Maple,” the “ Virginian 
Flowering Maple,” the ‘‘ Strawberry Tree,” the “* Male Cypress,” 
the ‘‘ Female Cypress,” the ‘‘ Manna Ash,” the “ Black Walnut 
Tree,” the ‘‘ Red Horse Chestnut,” the manured or ‘‘ Stone Pine,” 
the ‘‘ Virginian Sumach,” the ‘‘ Honey Locust,” the “ Cork Tree,” 
the ‘‘ Evergreen Oak,” and the ‘‘ Cedar of Lebanon ”—introduced 
into England by Evelyn in 1664. ‘‘ Trees of Curiosity ” was the 
name given to those brought from abroad, and 131 new specimens 
came to this country in the seventeenth century. 
The botanists who followed Mr. Ray, wrote of precious additions 
to the gardens after his day, and the eighteenth century claims the 
credit of the introduction of 445 new trees and plants. It was 
Bishop Porteous, the founder of Sunday Schools, who planted the 
cedars at Fulham. 
Faulkner also states that in the year 1751 “the late Sir 
William Watson”’—who was probably the physician of that 
name who died in 1787—made a survey of the now celebrated 
gardens. He had previously given the Royal Society an account 
of all that remained of the renowned garden of the Tradescents 
at Lambeth, and he now offered them one of that “ still more 
famous Botanick Garden at Fulham.” He winds up his report 
with a eulogy on Henry Compton, formerly Bishop of London— 
‘“‘ that excellent prelate, who, by means of a large correspondence 
with the principal botanists of Europe and America, introduced 
into England a greater number of plants, more especially trees 
which had never been seen here, or before described by any author 
—therefore his name is mentioned with the greatest encomiums by 
the botanical writers of the times—to wit, Herman, Ray, and 
others.” 
This being so, it is melancholy to reflect that, through the culpable 
indifference of Bishop Robinson, whose duty and privilege it 
should have been to guard the treasures to which he had succeeded, 
many of the rarer trees and shrubs in the garden, the more tender 
exotics, and all the greenhouse plants, had been removed to make 
way for the more ordinary produce of the kitchen-garden. It is 
some consolation, however, to know that very much still remains. 
at Fulham that is well worth seeing. The storms of three 
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