178  London  Botanic  Gardens.  {  ^SiS™- 
try,  were  planted.  (For  the  positions  which  they  occupied  see  "  9  " 
on  Plate  XXV).  Two  of  the  trees  died  after  about  a  century's 
existence,  and  were  cut  down(i77i);  of  the  remaining  two  (see 
Plate  XXIII),  one  died  in  1875,  and  the  other  was  removed  in  1904.1 
By  1685  tne  expenses  of  the  garden  began  to  assume  such  consider- 
able proportions  that  a  plan  was  adopted  in  that  year  by  which  the 
entire  management  of  the  garden  was  handed  over  to  Watts  for 
seven  years,  on  the  condition  that  the  garden  and  the  buildings 
therein  were  to  be  kept  in  good  order  and  that  a  catalogue  of  all 
the  plants  was  to  be  prepared.  He  was  allowed  an  annual  sum  for 
these  services,  in  addition  to  all  expenses  incurred  in  cultivating  the 
ground  used  by  the  proprietors  of  the  Laboratory  Stock.  Each 
member  of  the  Society  was  allowed  a  key  of  the  garden  at  his  own 
expense. 
It  was  during  the  first  year  of  Watt's  lease  that  Evelyn  visited  the 
garden,  and  it  will  not  be  without  interest  to  reproduce  his  entry,  as 
it  gives  us  some  insight  into  the  condition  of  the  garden  at  that 
date  (1685):— 
"  7  Aug.  I  went  to  see  Mr.  Wats,  keeper  of  the  Apothecaries 
Garden  of  Simples  at  Chelsea,  where  there  is  a  collection  of  innu- 
merable rarities  of  that  sort  particularly,  besides  many  annuals,  the 
tree  bearing  jesuits  bark,  which  had  don  such  wonders  in  quartan 
agues.  What  was  very  ingenious  was  the  subterranean  heate,  con- 
veyed by  a  stove  under  the  conservatory,  which  was  all  vaulted 
with  brick,  so  as  he  has  the  doores  and  windowes  open  in  the 
hardest  frosts,  secluding  only  the  snow."2 
After  the  expiration  of  Watt's  lease  in  1693,  Samuel  Doody, 
F.R.S.,  also  a  member  of  the  Society,  took  over  the  charge  and 
management  of  the  garden  on  terms  similar  to  those  previously 
made  with  Watts.  This  arrangement,  however,  soon  proved  unsat- 
isfactory and  Doody  was  absolved  from  his  obligations  in  1695  ;  but 
it  is  nevertheless  probable  that  he  continued  to  manage  the  affairs 
of  the  garden  until  his  death  in  1706.    After  Doody's  decease  the 
1 A  limb  was  blown  off  in  1812  from  one  of  these  cedars,  and  from  it  a  chair 
was  made.  In  1846  another  limb  was  broken  off  in  the  same  way,  but  whether 
from  the  same  tree  or  not,  is  not  stated,  and  from  this  four  chairs  were  made. 
2  Textually  rendered  from  Bray's  edition  of  the  Diary.  The  abstract  pre- 
viously given  in  the  introductory  chapter  was  taken  from  the  emended  version 
in  Field's  work  (see  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy,  October,  1905,  p.  454). 
