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affiftances they received from the free com- 
munic ition of rare and new plants out of 
the garden at Fulham. Many of Pluke- 
net^s figures were engraved from fpeci- 
mens out of the Bifhop^s garden ^ and fome 
from a book of drawings in his poffeffion, 
quoted under the name of Codex Comptoni-* 
en/is. 
In the fecond volume of Ray's Hiftory 
of Plants, p. 1798, we find a Catalogue of 
fome new fpecies of Trees and Plants, ob- 
ferved by the author in this garden. Thefc 
were principally of Noi^th America?! growth. 
The reader who is defirous of feeing a more 
ample account of the garden at Fulham^ is 
referred to a relation of the ftate in which 
it was found in the year 1751, written by 
the late Sir William Watson, and printed 
in the 47th volume of the Fhilofophical 
Tranfa5lioj2s. 
D O O D Y. 
If to any man ir^ his day, not profefledly 
an author on the fubjeft, extraordinary 
praife is due, for difcoveries in the indige- 
nous botany, it muft belong to Mr. Samuel 
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