CHAP. II. 



BRITISH ISLANDS. 



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Duchess of Portland introduced Faccinium frondosum. Among 

 the plants respecting which merely the dates at which they were 

 introduced to, or first cultivated in, Britain, are recorded in the 

 Hortus Kewensis, are, Gaulther/a procumbens ; J?hododendron 

 poaticum, introduced, we are informed, by Conrad Loddiges, 

 who sold the first plant to the Marquess of Rockingham, a noble 

 encourager of botany and gardening; Andromeda axillaris, 

 coriacea, and acuminata; (Styrax grandifolium and laevigatum, 

 Kalmm glauca, and that delightful shrub, Chimonaathus fra- 

 grans. The last, we are informed, was first cultivated by the 

 Earl of Coventry at Croome. 



From 1771 to 1780 (Geo. III.)? w^ere introduced eight trees and 

 forty-eight shrubs. Mr. Primmer introduced Genista lusitanica ; 

 Mr. Richard, C/lmus pumila, Cai-agdna ChamldgUjand Caprifolium 

 implexum ; Sir Joseph Banks, Ssd'ix myrtilloides from Sweden ; 

 Dr. Solander, fSpiree^a Iffivigata from Siberia; Dr. Hope of Edin- 

 burgh, Populus candicans and monilifera. Messrs. Kennedy 

 and Lee introduced JS'phedra monostachya, Buddlea globosa, 

 Gleditschza horrida, i^hamnus ahiifcMius, and others. The cele- 

 brated botanist and traveller, Pallas, introduced Pyrus ^alicifolia 

 in 1780, Diotis ceratoides, and Calligonum Pallasz'«. Dr. Nicolas 

 Jacquin introduced Cytisus capitatus, and Z)rypis spinosa; Dr. 

 Pitcairn, Faccinium dumosum; Mr. William Malcolm, Gordbnia 

 pubescens ; Mr. William Young, Faccinium stamineum ; John 

 Earl of Bute, Genista germanica; Hugh Duke of Northumber- 

 land, Caragdfia spinc)sa; Dr. Fothergill, that beautiful tree, Py- 

 rus spectabilis, JSukus balearica, and Clematis fiorida. ^Salix 

 incubacea and Genista decumbens were introduced by Drs. 

 Fothergill and Pitcairn about the same time. Francis Masson 

 introduced Faccinium ^rctostaphylos. Benjamin Bewick in- 

 troduced Faccinium angustifolium. 



From 1781 to 1790 (Geo. III., intercourse with America being 

 restored), sixteen trees and thirty-five shrubs were introduced, ac- 

 cording to the Hortiis Britannicus ; but the names below, men- 

 tioned as having been introduced by Conrad Loddiges, make the 

 number much greater. John Bell introduced Viburnum dauri- 

 cum, ^etula daurica, and Caragdna Altagdna. John Busch 

 introduced Ribes Diacantha and ^'Inus incana ; John GrsefFer, 

 Pyrus bollwylleriana and baccata, and that valuable evergreen, 

 Aucuba japonica (female). William Forsyth cultivated Pinus 

 Banksmwa in 1758; William Young, Praxinus yuglandifolia ; 

 and Daniel Grimwood, Praxinus pubescens. The Hudson's 

 Bay Company introduced ?71mus undulata ; John Eraser, Mag- 

 nolm auriculata, Phododendron punctatum, and Quercus lyrata, 

 imbricaria, and rotundifolia; Sir Joseph Banks, Hydrangea Hor- 

 tensi«, Magnolm conspicua, Pdzbnia Moutan, Posa indica, Berberis 

 sibirica, and some vacciniums. Gilbert Slater introduced Posa 



