in 1788, was 45 ft. 9 in. high, though 9 ft. had been broken off by the wind. Lysons saw this tree in 1809, and found the girt of it, at 3 ft. 10 in. from the ground (not being able to measure lower, on account of a seat which was fixed round it), to be 13 ft. 1 in. Dr. Uvedale was born in 1642; he became master of the grammar school at Enfield about 1670, and died in 1722. He is said to have devoted so much of his time to his garden, as to be threatened with being removed from his situation by the authorities who had appointed him.

Dr. May, the present master of the grammar school at Enfield, says there is a tradition that one of Dr. Uvedale's scholars, who travelled, had a commission from the doctor to bring a plant of the cedar of Lebanon from Mount Lebanon, and that he brought the tree now standing. Dr. May had it measured in 1821, for the History of Enfield; and, the tree being in a state of decay, its dimensions at the present time (January, 1835) are much the same as they were then. The tree lost one of its leading branches in November 1794, previously to which its general form was that of an inverted cone. It was then, and is now, 64 ft. 8 in. high; the girt at one foot from the ground, in 1821, was 19 ft. 9 in.; and the girt is now (1835) 15 ft. 8 in., at 3 ft. from the ground; at 6 ft., 14 ft. There is a portrait of the Enfield cedar in Strutt's Sylva Britannica, and the measurements, as taken for us, with the kind permission of Dr. May, will be found in detail in the Gardener's Magazine, vol. xi.

The trees and shrubs introduced or cultivated by the curators or proprietors of these different gardens, and others which we have mentioned, will be found in the list which concludes this section, in which the names of Dr. Compton, Gerard, L'Obel, Parkinson, Tradescant, Sutherland, Uvedale, and Sir Hans Sloane, will be found frequently to occur.

In Scotland there appears to have been some taste for botany towards the end of this century, as Patrick Murray had a collection of a thousand plants at Livingstone, and Dr. Balfour founded the botanic garden of Edinburgh in 1680. The curator of the botanic garden at Edinburgh, James Sutherland, was an excellent botanist, and by his correspondents introduced many foreign plants into the garden. It is remarkable that in this garden the cedar of Lebanon was introduced in 1683, the same year in which it is mentioned as having been planted by Bishop Compton at Fulham, and in the Chelsea Botanic Garden.

In Ireland, Sir Arthur Rawdon, struck with the collection of plants in the garden of his countryman, Dr. (afterwards Sir) Hans Sloane, of Chelsea, sent a gardener, who had been a collector for Sir Hans Sloane, to Jamaica, who brought back a shipload of plants to Moira, where various hardy foreign trees were introduced, and kept in good order for several years.

The place is now in the possession of Sir Robert Bateson, but we believe it has been long since dismantled.

The trees and shrubs introduced into England in the 17th century, according to the Hortus Kewensis, were as follows:

(Parkinson)

The total number of woody plants introduced during the

17th century appears to be upwards of 130.

From the commencement of the seventeenth century to 1636, during the reign of James I., and part of that of Charles I., twenty-six plants were introduced; all, except four, in the year 1629. The reason why so many appear in this year is, that it is the date of the first edition of Parkinson's Paradisi in Sole, &c., in which they were first enumerated. The only introducers mentioned are, Mr. Serjeant Newdigate; John de Franqueville, a merchant in London, from whose care, Parkinson says, "is sprung the greatest store of rare plants that is now flourishing in this kingdom; " Wilmot, and Parkinson. Among the plants introduced during this period are some of considerable interest; the silver fir by Serjeant Newdigate, the gum cistus, the horsechestnut, the five-leaved ivy, the common laurel, the pyracantha, the red mulberry, the black walnut, and that most important tree, the larch: the introducers of the last eight valuable plants are unknown. Five of the articles are from North America, one from Asia, and the rest from different parts of the continent of Europe. Evelyn states that "at Harefield Park, in the county of Middlesex, belonging to Mr. Serjeant Newdigate, there are two Spanish or silver firs, that being planted there in the year 1603, at two years' growth from the seed, are now (1679) become goodly masts. The biggest of them, from the ground to the upper bough, is 81 ft., though forked on the top; which has not a little impeded its growth. The girt, or circumference, below, is 13 ft.; and the length, so far as it is timber, that is to 6 in. square, is 73 ft.; in the middle it is 17 in. square; amounting by calculation to 146 ft. of good timber. The other tree is indeed not altogether so large, by reason of its standing near the house when it was burned about 40 years since, when one side of the tree was scorched." (Silva, edit. 1706.)

In 1640 (still during the reign of Charles I.), twenty-three plants were introduced. The authority is Parkinson's Herbal, or Theatre of Plants, published in that year. The introducers were, Parkinson, Tradescant, and Tradescant junior. Among the articles were, the Robínia Pseùd-Acàcia, the azarole, the Persian lilac, the occidental plane, and the deciduous cypress. Seven are from North America, and the rest from different parts of Europe.

In the year 1656 (in the time of Cromwell), sixteen plants were introduced, the authority for which is the Catalogue of Tradescant's Museum, published in that year. Among the articles are, Acer rubrum, the evergreen honeysuckle, the nettle tree, and the grey walnut.

From 1658 to 1683 (Charles II.), nine plants were introduced, by Edward Morgan, John Rea, Bishop Compton, Evelyn, and the Earl of Norfolk. Among these are, the Pistàcia Lentíscus,