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serymen and others soon raised a considerable sum : nevertheless 

 this plan came to nothing, as the son was thereby offended. How- 

 ever, the young Miller died soon after, and had a monument erected 

 for himself and his father towther. 



We also visited the garden of the cheerful Haworth, at Queen's 

 Elms, near Chelsea, who indefatigably and exclusively studies the 

 Succulent Plants, and possesses many extremely rare ones. More 

 than 200 Aloes, 360 Mesembryanthema, and 90 Crassulae, are in his 

 collection. Mr. Haworth seems a very communicative and kind- 

 hearted little man : he has the happiness already of being a grand- 

 father, though in the prime of his age. We had wished to see tlie 

 respectable Mr. Salisbury's garden j but were told that he had sold it, 

 and was living with a friend in the country during the fine weather. 

 We were sorry to lose the opportunity of being acquainted with this 

 celebrated botanist. Fortunately, we had the pleasure of seeing in 

 London the Nestor of the London botanists, who has already passed 

 the eightieth degree of human latitude, — namely, the celebrated Dr. 

 Sims, whom we found indefatigably employed in the continuation of 

 the Botanical Ma^dzine, although with a trembling hand, and a head 



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bowing down under the ponderous weight of the reverend silver 



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crown of age. 



A no less venerable and highly amiable sage is the good old man 

 of the mountains, (e monle Grampio,) Sir Archibald Menzies, of the 

 Grampians, among which he was born, at Chapel Place, in the month 

 of March 1754. (!) Flora has presented tlm valuable old man 

 with a truly viridem senedutem, in reward for the homage which 

 he offered to her in his twice repeated voyage round the world. 

 " And were another expedition going, I would immediately set off 

 again/' said Sir Archibald to us. He has lately returned from an 



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excursion to Scotland j when his countrymen on taking leave of him 

 threw the Menziesia *, accompanied with a thousand blessings, into 



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the happiness of receiving Mr. Menzies at our house in his return from the High- 

 lands, and heard nothing of this story of the Menziesia. Nor can Dr. Schultes be 

 aware of the extreme rarity of this plant. Scarcely a single botanist has seen it on 

 Its native mountains, not even Mr. Menzies himself; so that we well believe that 



