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^ M. I)eJuJ]teu carry ’d us afterwards to fee the other Plant which 
^ came fome time before from Holland, It is as yet but very in- 
^ confiderable, bears no Fruit;, and is but about a Foot and an 
‘ half high, tho’ very frelh and in good Plight. But to return 
‘ to the firll, in order to fatisfy my Curiofity compleatly, I want- 
^ ed now only to fee it in Flower 5 and this I had the Pleafure 
^ of, by M. Juffteus Means, in about five Weeks after. I faw 
^ fome of the Flowers unblown, others perfedly open and fpread, 
^ and from thence I was fully convinced of the Truth of every 
thing I have advanced in my Memoirs on that Subject. 
In this fame Year, 1714, Mr. Bradley tells us, t\\Q Dutch fent 
over feveral Trees to their Settlement at Surinam in ihzWeJi Indies, 
in order to cultivate them in that Country, where he thinks they 
will undoubtedly turn to good Account-, as he is perfuaded they 
would do, if they were propagated in the South Parts of Caro- 
lina. That Trial I believe has not as yet been made, but there 
is now a very large Stock of Coffee Trees in Barhadoes from 
whence not only whole Plants, but even fome Pounds of dry’d 
Fruit have been fent to England. And I am inform’d by Mr. 
Philip Miller of Chelfey^ that in the Year 1720, one Capt. Toung 
carry ’d the firfl; Plants from Surinam to that Ifland. If we may 
believe Mr. Bradley, in his late Appendix, it is owing to Ffis 
former Writings that ever they thought of cultivating Coffee 
there. ^ I am, fays he, the more particular {about making hot-beds, 
‘ no noubt n)ery necejfary in Barbadoes) on this account, becaufe I 
^ now find that my former Writings concerning Coffee, have 
^ brought that Plant to be familiar in our American Plantations, 
^ I mean the Ifland of Barbadoes, where at prefent there is a great 
^ Number of Plants in a fruit- bearing State, from whence fome 
^ have been brought to the Royal Palace at Hampton Court, in a 
^ profperous Condition 5 and I doubt not but the Plant, for its 
‘ Beauty and Curiofity, will be as much coveted by all Lovers 
‘ of Gardens, with us ; efpecially fince the fame Expence, in 
‘ point of Culture, will ferve for the Education of all the choice 
‘ Fruits of the hotteft Climates. 
But to return to the Progrefs of the Coffee Plant in Europe. 
Being by this time pretty common in the Northern Countries 
thereof, it at length found its Way over the Alps into the Phyfick 
Garden at Pifa, from whence, no doubt, it has now fpread to 
the other curious Repofitories in Italy. It is M. Tilli, Botanick 
Profeffor at Pifa, who ac(]uaints us with this Circumftance. The 
Grand Duke, he fays, being inform’d that the Coffee Tree was 
cultivated in the Amjlerdam Garden, defir’d of the Diredor there- 
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