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passage to the garden of his personal herbarium. Twice, the Chap- 

 man herbarium had been sold each time the best representatives in 

 it being selected, and supplemented by fragments from his scrap 

 books when these were essential for the representation of a species; 

 but there remained at the time of his death a large amount of material 

 which as he said consisted of the original fragmentary specimens 

 representative of his earlier work on the southern flora, and, there- 

 fore, really the types of the species contained in it as he then under- 

 stood them. ' For every student of the plants of this region, there- 

 fore, this collection is of the greatest value, as showing, so far as 



Seed Beds. 



it goes, what he really had in mind when using a particular name 

 and it was precisely that this record of his work might be permanently 

 preserved, that he was desirous that his collection should find its 

 home in the garden. 



In themselves, living plants, books and herbarium specimens are 

 but a burden to those charged with looking after and caring for 

 them. He is a happy botanist who has no care except for the thing 

 that his mind is turned to at any given moment. Happy the gardener 

 with only a bay-window to care for ! The need for accumulating more 

 than the use of the moment demands lies in the impossibility of other- 

 wise having at hand facilities when they are needed. The sight-seer 

 finds nothing but a curious scene in half an acre of seed beds, thickly 

 studded with little labels which mark the lines where thousands of 

 kinds of seeds lie awaiting the quickening action of sun and rain; 

 but to the student of morphology its value is untold. The sightseer, 

 too, is impressed with but a small part of the things that he sees in 

 passing through a large collection of even the most beautiful plants. 

 A mass of color, a clump of graceful foliage, repeated in different 



