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* Curiofity, which I (ent into England^ and intruded to the Care 
* of Mr. Thomas Fairchild^ a mod accurate Gardiner at Hoxton. 
Dr. Sherrard has been fo kind as to inform me, that about the 
Year lyip he fent a Coifee Plant to Dv. Eudal 2.1 Enfield and 
in his Brother, Mr. Sherrard, had fome for his fine Gar- 
den at Eltham, likewile diredlly from Holland, 
In 1714, Mr. Parker of Eeling had two Plants lent him from 
There has been Jikewife a good Number of Plants lent direct- 
O 
ly hither from, Barhadoes. Thofe that came lad Summer to His 
Majedy, were fent by the Governour of that Idand, and en- 
truded to the Care of Dr. Gamble. His Royal Highnefs the 
Prince, and the Duke of Chandos had fome by the fame Ship. 
CHAR IV. 
The Coffee Plant in general. 
I N this Chapter my Defign is only to lay before the Reader a 
fliort View of the Sentiments of Authors concerning the Ge- 
nus of this Plant, with refpe6l to Theophrajlus's general Divifion 
of Vegetables j and to remark the other Plants to which it has 
been compared. The Obfervations which belong to this Place, 
are therefore fuch only as could not conveniently be rank’d under 
any Head of the following Defcription, and at the fame time 
ferve to convey a general Idea of the whole Plant, the particular 
Parts of which I am afterwards to examine. 
Every Body knows that Theophrajlus has divided all Plants into 
thefe four Clades, Trees, Shrubs, Under- fhrubs and Herbs. The 
Coffee Plant has been thought by different Authors to belong to 
every one of thefe; for it is by fome called a Tree, by others a 
Shrub and Bulk, by others an Herb, in exprefs Terms 5 and by 
others, in fine, it has been compared to different Plants of all 
thefe Kinds. 
Alpinus, the firfl Author who has mention’d the Coffee Plant, 
calls it a Tree, and compares it to the Euonymus, a few things 
excepted concerning the Figure and Subftance of the Leaves. It 
is not eafy to determine what Euonymus is here meant - did he 
not feem to place the chief Difference between the Coffee Plant 
and that, in the Leaves, I fliould be apt to think he had in view 
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