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HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF TREES. 



PART I. 



in ] 788, was 45 ft. 9 in. high, though 9 ft. had been broken off 

 by the wind. Lysons saw this tree in 1809, and found the girt 

 of it, at 3 ft. 10 in, from the ground (not being able to measure 

 lower, on account of a seat which was fixed round it), to be 

 13 ft. 1 in. Dr. Uvedale was born in 1642; he became master 

 of the grammar school at Enfield about 1670, and died in 

 1722. He is said to have devoted so much of his time to his 

 garden, as to be threatened with being removed from his situ- 

 ation by the authorities who had appointed him. 



Dr. May, the present master of the grammar school at 

 Enfield, says there is a tradition that one of Dr. Uvedale's 

 scholars, who travelled, had a commission from the doctor to 

 bring a plant of the cedar of Lebanon from Mount Lebanon, 

 and that he brought the tree now standing. Dr. May had it 

 measured in 1821, for the History of E/ifield and, the tree being 

 in a state of decay, its dimensious at the present time (January, 

 1835) are much the same as they were then. The tree lost one 

 of its leading branches in November 1794, previously to which 

 its general form was that of an inverted cone. It was then, and 

 is now, 64 ft. 8 in. high ; the girt at one foot from the ground, 

 in 1821, was 19 ft. 9in. ; and the girt is now (1835) 15 ft. 8 in., 

 at 3 ft. from the ground ; at 6 ft., 14 ft. There is a portrait of 

 the Enfield cedar in Strutt's Sylva Britannica, and the measure- 

 ments, as taken for us, with the kind permission of Dr. May, 

 will be found in detail in the Gardener's Magazine, vol. xi. 



The trees and shrubs introduced or cultivated by the curators 

 or proprietors of these different gardens, and others which we 

 have mentioned, will be found in the list which concludes this 

 section, in which the names of Dr. Compton, Gerard, L'Obel, 

 Parkinson, Tradescant, Sutherland, Uvedale, and Sir Hans 

 Sloane, will be found frequently to occur. 



In Scotland there appears to have been some taste for botany 

 towards the end of this century, as Patrick Murray had a col- 

 lection of a thousand plants at Livingstone, and Dr. Balfour 

 founded the botanic garden of Edinburgh in 1680. The curator 

 of the botanic garden at Edinburgh, James Sutherland, was an 

 excellent botanist, and by his correspondents introduced many 

 foreign plants into the garden. It is remarkable that in this 

 garden the cedar of Lebanon was introduced in 1683, the same 

 year in which it is mentioned as having been planted by Bishop 

 Compton at Fulham, and in the Chelsea Botanic Garden. 



In Ireland, Sir Arthur Rawdon, struck with the collection of 

 plants in the garden of his countryman. Dr. (afterwards Sir) 

 Hans Sloane, of Chelsea, sent a gardener, who had been a col- 

 lector for Sir Hans Sloane, to Jamaica, who brought back a 

 shipload of plants to Moira, where various hardy foreign trees 

 were introduced, and kept in good order for several years. 



