324 LONDON PARKS & GARDENS 
grows by the wall, was probably planted when intro¬ 
duced from Nepaul in 1823, The wistaria and pome¬ 
granate are old and still flourishing, and young plants 
of the trees once famous in the Garden are doing 
well. The amount of attention the novelties in the 
Physic Garden used to attract is w T ell shown by the 
spurious translation of De Sorhiere’s travels. The little 
book, published in 1698, purported to be a translation 
of De Sorbiere, but was really an original skit. The 
writer pretends De Sorbi&re visited the Garden, and re¬ 
ported a delightful series of imaginary flowers. “ I was 
Chelsey, where I took particular notice of the plants 
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SBere among the earliest attempted, and many scientific 
visitors describe their plans and arrangements. They 
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great cost in 1732. The statue to Sir 
Michael Rysbrach, stood in a niche in 
ill. It was moved to the centre of the 
where it still stands. The Carden was 
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kiarv : Miller of Chelsea permitted me 
is‘its in the Garden, and gave me several 
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the valuable beauests to the Garden were 
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