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as once that most flourishing Garden in England must diminish. I feel it however strongly my duty to support it as far as I can, and to make it a useful School of Botany. I have greatly to regret the contracted size of our Stove, the smallness of which with its injudicious Construction makes it rather the [indecipherable] than the Conservatory of our Collection. I have ventured therefore in my List to mark only such as will either bear the Open Air, or require only the Shelter of a Green House. The Local of the Oxford Garden is particularly favorable to Plants that delight in a moist soil - the North American & Alpine Plants will I think flourish with air & for the smaller ones. I have contrived a commodious Reception under a Wall with a North Aspect. Our Reservoir for Aquatics is also very good & our indigenous Collection is pretty complete & many of my Grecians still keep their Ground. I have a Plan of the