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account of monies expended by Sir Jos: Banks in the Purchase of Trees Plants & seeds & for the use of his majesties Colony at New South Wales

October 24 1798 by wages paid to G Sutter Gardener for collecting together Plants from the nurseries planting & attending them at the Royal Gardens at Kew etc from Aug.t 8th
 
 
Octr 21 --- at 15/ a week  £8..0..0
Paid  G Sutter  gardiner dº for tools, some seeds & other necessaries    1..7..6
Paid Whitley & Barrett for 30 vines    5..7..6
Paid [Messrs?] Ronalds his bill for vines Fruit trees seeds etc    6.18.10
Paid Thos Layton waterman at Kew for the Freight of the whole cargo in a Large [Tilled?] Boat, from the Royal Gardens to Long reach    5..5..0
Paid Mess Ronalds for Kitchen Garden seeds, two collections parcels, the one for Norfolk Island, the other for Sydney Cove  12.18.0
May 18  1799
Paid Geo Coley for carrying down in the coach some exotic plants from Kew Gardens to Replace others that had died on board the Porpoise
   1..7..5
Jan 15 1800
Paid Mess Ronalds for vines etc to replace those that were dead  
  1..9..6
  £42.13.9
N.B, all the exotic Plants were furnishd from the Royal Botanic Gardens & no charge for them was made   
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