% Abraham Hawkins, Esq. 177 

 Several plants of the Verbena triphylla are growing at 

 Salcombe in the open ground, and are now six feet high. 

 I have not tried any of them myself, but as I expect to be 

 more at home in future, than for some years past, I shall not 

 fail to add this plant to those tender shrubs already growing 

 around me. 



Oranges and Lemons, trained as Peach Trees against 

 walls, and sheltered only with mats of straw during the win- 

 ter, have been seen in a few gardens of the south of Devon- 

 shire for these hundred years. The fruit is as large and fine 

 as any from Portugal ; some Lemons from a garden near this 

 place, were, about thirty-five or forty years ago, presented 

 to the King by the late Earl Poulett, from his sister Lady 

 Bridget Bastard, of Gerston; and there are trees still in 

 the neighbourhood, the planting of which I believe is beyond 

 memory. The late Mr. Pollexfen Bastard, who had the 

 greatest number of Oranges and Lemons of any one in this 

 country, remarked above thirty years since (what tends to 

 confirm your experiments), that he found stocks raised from 

 seed and grafted in his own garden, bore the cold better 

 than Oranges and Lemons imported. 



I have the honour to be, 

 Sir, 



Your very obedient servant, 



Arraham Hawkins. 



Alston, near Kingsbridge, Devon, 

 December 11, J 809. 



