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FOTHERGILL. 191 colder climes. In the open ground, about 3000 distinct species of plants and shrubs bloomed on the return of summer. Such displays were not in him the effect of ostentation ; he had always in view the enlarge- ment and elevation of his own mind, and the pros- pect of multiplying the enjoyments of his fellow- beings. He formed an useful exchange of the productions of the earth. From America he re- ceived various species of catalpas, kalmias, mag- nohas, firs, oaks, maples, and other valuable productions, which became inhabitants of his own soil, and some of which were capable of being applied to the most useful purposes of timber ; — and he transported, in return, the green and bohea teas from his garden at Upton, to the southern part of that continent. He endeavoured to im- prove the growth and quality of coffee in the West Indian islands ; and procured from China the bamboo-cane, with a view of naturalizing it in our intertropical possessions. He made many efforts to introduce the cinnamon-tree into the West In- dian colonies. He attempted to procure the tree which affords the Peruvian bark, and is said to have, at length, so fax succeeded, as to have had one plant in his garden. To two captains of ships he offered each a reward of one hundred pounds for a plant in vegetation of the true Winter's bark (JFinterana aroinaticd). But his attention was not confined to the vegetable kingdom. Da Costa is indebted to him for many valuable remarks in- serted in his History of Shells, — of which Fother- gill possessed the best cabinet in England, next to that of the Duchess of Portland. His collection