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the twelve copies Lord Bute retained two, and one of these was sold in 
1798 for 1201. The "8 etna contains an imperfect copy of proofs 
before letters of the p 
The artist Анев гез was ; Johannes Sebastian Mueller, who was born 
at Niirnburg in 1715. He emigrated to this country and anglicized his 
name to Johu Miller. In 1780 he began the publication of a fine series 
of coloured р» of rare and interesting flowering plants. One of these 
was Phormium tenax (New Zealand flax) probably from a dried speci- 
men. "iim linis were from specimens flowered at Kew :—Stuartia 
virginica, Strelitzia Regine (in 1779) and eral cartis indica. ‘The 
project came to an end with his death in London in 
William Curtis, the founder in 1787 of the Bota cal Magazine 
(which since 1841 has been prepared at Kew), “co нений in 1771 
“ the * Flora Londinensis,’ a magnificently illustrated folio work, which 
* almost ruined its author, and was never completed.” In 1777 he 
dedicated the first volume :— 
“To the Right Honourable John Stuart Earl of Bute, &с. “The 
Mæcenas of a ag Age: This first volume of the Flora Londinen- 
sis, ышы His Auspices, and encouraged by His Liberality, Is, 
with the cre — менед by His most obliged, Humble 
Servant, W. Curt 
DUKE or ARGYLE. 
In Peter Collinson’s manuscripts printed in the Transactions of the 
Linnean Society (vol. x., p. 275), there is a ке» to Lord Bute’s 
share in the works which were carried on at this 
“In the Duke of Argyll’s wood stands the largest New England Weymouth 
his, and his largest cedars of Lebanon now standing, were all raised by 
him from seed in the year 1725 at his seat at Whitton, near Hounslow. 
“ This spring, 1763, all the Duke of Argyll’s trees and shrubs were removed to 
the Princess of Wales’s garden at Kew, which now exeels all others, under the 
direction of Lord Bute.” 
e trees were no doubt planted in a old 75 which in 
part still exists near the Main Gate on Kew Green. Many have 
perished and have been removed from age. But those ‘that remain in- 
clude some of the finest specimens of rare trees in the Gardens; in 
particular, the great Turkey oak near the Temple of the Sun is said to 
have been planted at this time. 
Sm WILLIAM CHAMBERS. 
n 1763 Sir William Chambers, = bog tect of Somerset а 
al 
successive possessor modified what had been done before, that it is 
not easy to say whose influence is now most predominant. But judging 
from contemporary prints the aspect of the Gardens in the middle of 
the eighteenth century must have been much more formal than it » at 
' recalls more the style dhii obtained at Versailles 
other continental gardens of the time. Gradually it seems to have given 
