Chdfea Garden . i ® i 
the city, colledl the fcarce plants, and dine 
together near London ; on which occalion 
they are frequently accompanied by other 
gentlemen, who are fond of the fame pur- 
fuits. 
This inftitution at Chelfea was rendered 
more ftable, and received permanency, from 
the liberality of Sir Hans Sloane ; who, 
foon after his purchafe of the manor, in 
1 72 1, gave the freehold of the ground, near 
four acres, to the Company, on condition 
that the demonftrator fliould, in the name 
of the Company, deliver annually to the 
Royal Society fifty new plants, till the num- 
ber fliould amount to 2000, all fpecifically 
different from each other ^ the lift of which 
was publijfhed yearly, in the Fhilofophical 
^ranJa5tions. The firft was printed in the 
year 1722, and the catalogues have been 
continued till the year 1773? at which time 
the number 2550 was completed. Thefe 
fpecimens are duly preferved in the archives 
of the Society, for the infpeclion of the cu« 
rious. 
Under excellent fuperintendants, Chelfea 
Garden has flouri£hed; having been excelled, 
perhaps, by no public inftitution of the 
H 3 ■ kind 
