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of the Herbal, probably the firft botanical Garden in 
England. The Founder, after many Years fpent in 
the Service of the Lord Treafurer Salisbury , Lord 
IVotton , See. travell’d feveral Years, and procured a 
great Variety of Plants and Seeds before not known 
in England i to feveral of which at this time the 
Gardeners give his Name, as a Mark of Diflin&ion ; 
as Tradefcant's Spiderwort, Tradefcant’s After, Tr a- 
defcant’s Daffodil. He firft planted here the Cupref 
Jus Americanus Acacia foliis deciduis , which has been 
fince fo much efteem’d, and is now one of the great 
Ornaments of the Dukeofy^rg;'//'s Garden at Wit ton. 
Mr. Tradefcant’s, Garden has now been many Years 
totally neglecled, and the Houfe belonging to it 
empty and ruin'd ; and though the Garden is quite 
cover'd with Weeds, there remain among them ma- 
nifeft Footfteps of its Founder. We found there the 
Borrago latifolia Jempervirens of C. B. Polygona- 
tum vulgar e latifolium C. B. Arifolochia clema - 
titis reSta C. B. and Eracontium Eod. There are 
yet remaining two Trees of the Arbutus , the largeft 
I have feen ; which, from their being fo long ufed 
to our Winters, did not fuffer by the fevere Colds 
of 1725) and 1740, when mod of their kind were 
kill’d throughout England. In the Orchard there 
is a Tree of the Rhamnus cat hart icus , about 20 
Feet high, and near a Foot in Diameter, by much 
the greateft: 1 ever faw. 
It is not unlikely but there may be feveral other 
Plants yet remaining in the Garden, but flourifhing at 
a different Time ol the Year. 
X 
W- Watfon. 
XIV. 
