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of that he might have a Plant for his Phyhck Garden at Pifa^ 
and as they readily conlented, it accordingly arriv’d fate at Leg^ 
horn in 1715, in the hottefl: time of the Year, having liiitain’d 
no Damage in the Voyage ,• and being from thence tran (ported 
to Pifa^ it continues there to flourifh and bear Fruit to Perfection, 
from which many young Plants have been rais’d. Hujus rarij]t?n£ 
Plants in Am^lijjirno Amfleliedamenji horto Vegetantis ad Aures Regijs 
Celjitudinis Magni Ducif Rumor per^venerat, ^ ficuti omnes ejus im- 
petus tarn in genere Scientiarum qtiam in genere noDitatis ad lattdem 
femper funt propenfi, ut honejia utilia queelihet animus ejus con- 
tinue cogitety hanc plant am quoque ex horto Ajnjiel^damenfi in Pifa- 
nam urhem transjerendam cogita^it ; hinc jaBum ut tanti Principis 
nomine^ claritate ac hene^okntia illujlrijjimi ^ nohilijjimi ejus horti 
curatores ad nos Anno ly 1 ^ , hanc Caje planta 7 n titulo ^ defcrip- 
tione Jafmini Arahici Cajlane£ joins jlore albo odoratiffimo a VoBif- 
Jifno Conimelino JaBa, orrmi cura diligentia miferunt. Hinc ^ 
jtdauis Guhernator fuam adhibuit operam ^ foUicitudinem j opportune 
enim Liburnum appuUt ■ tunc ajius erat graAjji 7 nHs , flagra 7 itijJi 7 no 
Jtdere Coelum ingaluerat, attamen a tanta Locorim dijlantia, abfque 
tiUo Hybernaculo nihil deirimenti acceperat. 
When the Coffee Tree was firft feen in England, I am not able 
pofitively to determine. Mr. Wife, His Majcfiy’s chief Garui- 
diner, affures me, that fome time before the Death ot the late 
Qiieen Mary this Plant was in the Royal Garden at ha77ipton Courtly 
and I have been told, that the late Bifliop of London, Dr. Comp- 
ton, had one tit Fulham in 16^6. brought dire( 5 lly from Batavia, 
by one Capt. Adams. 
In the Year lyo^". Her Grace the Dutchefs of Beaufort (as I 
am inform’d by the Gardiner) had one at Chelfey. 
In 1712. it was certainly in the Right Honourable the Lord 
Vifcount Weymouth’s Garden at Long Leate in Wiltjhire. This 
appears by a Catalogue of all the Stove and Greenhoufe Plants 
and Annuals in that Garden, taken July 28, 1714, when that 
Nobleman died, communicated to me by my worthy Friend the 
Reverend and Learned Mr. Harbeinj in which Catalogue I find 
the true Coffee Plant three Foot high feiit to my Lord from Holland, 
in 1712. 
, But the firfl; printed Account we have of any Plants fent from 
Amferdam to Efigland is by Mr. Bradley, in his firlf Treatife of 
Coftce, pLiblifli’d in 1714, that is, in the fame Year in which 
he himfelf faw them in Holland. ^ The Hecr Gerebrand Pa 7 icrafs, 
^ Commiffary of the Garden, and Prefident of the City Am • 
‘ fterdam, did me the Honour to accommodate me with this great 
G ‘ Curioficy, 
