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ramis dependentibus." Miller distinctly states that the plant 

 of this species sent to the Leyden Garden by his predecessor, 

 Watts, came from the garden of Bishop Compton at Fulham. 

 It is worth while to cite what Miller says at length : — 



"The third sort is at present pretty rare in English gardens, 

 though of late years there have been many plants raised here ; but 

 this sort is not quite so hardy, I fear, as the common Cypress, for 

 the plants are frequently killed or greatly injured in severe winters, 

 and in the hard frost in 17 40 there was a large tree of this kind 

 entirely killed in the gardens of his Grace the Duke of Richmond 

 at Goodwood, in Sussex, which had been growing there several years; 

 and in the year 1762 many large trees were killed. There are great 

 plenty of these trees growing at a place called Bussaco, near Coembra, 

 in Portugal, where this tree is called the Cedar of Bussaco ; and 

 there it grows to be a timber tree, so that from thence the seeds may 

 be easily procured. 



"This tree grows naturally at Goa, from whence it was first 

 brought to Portugal, where it has succeeded and been propagated. 

 Formerly there were some trees of this sort growing in the Bishop of 

 London's garden at Fulham, where it passed under the title of Cedar 

 of Goa, by which it was sent from thence to the Leyden garden with 

 that name." 



Compton was made Bishop of London in 1G75, and died in 

 1713. Unfortunately we have no clue to the source whence he 

 derived his specimens, but it would seem most probable that he 

 received them from Portugal. It is well known that he re- 

 ceived numerous plants and seeds from what are now the 

 United States, but it is not at all likely that he received the 

 Cypress from that source. As Miller speaks of " trees," they 

 must have been introduced for some considerable time when he- 

 wrote. 



Hermann, as we have seen, received a cutting from Watts, 

 and, from Miller's statement, it seems certain that Watts 

 obtained it from the Bishop's garden at Fulham ; although, as 

 he was at the time superintendent of the Chelsea Botanic 

 Garden, he might possibly also have sent it thence. In Miller's 

 time the tree was grown at Chelsea, as is shown by a specimen 

 in the Banksian Herbarium from Miller, but labelled sub- 

 sequently " Cupressus pendula, L'Heritier MSS." This specimen 

 is clearly referable to C. lusitanica, Miller. 



Succeeding writers occupied themselves more with the ques- 



