JANUARY. 7 



In the late lamented Dean of Manchester we have lost one who 

 stood pre-eminent as a cultivator of bulbs, and whose equal I never 

 expect to see. A few months since I was looking over his work on 

 the Amaryllidaceae, when my eye very unexpectedly caught sight of 

 a paragraph containing a warm and just eulogium on the late Dr. 

 Carey, one of the earliest labourers sent out by the Baptist Mis- 

 sionary Society. It is so simply and beautifully written, that I 

 think the readers of the Florist will thank you for recording in its 

 pages a testimony so honourable to both parties. 



" Crinum Careyanum. — This beautiful plant was brought to light by Dr. 

 Carey, late of Serampore ; and I had the pleasure of naming it after one of the 

 best, the most amiable, gifted, and indefatigable of men ; whose virtues and 

 talents adorned his country, and Avhose labours have promoted the glory of the 

 Almighty. I never saw that excellent man ; but fifteen years' correspondence 

 has accustomed me to look upon him as a dearly valued friend. His life was 

 devoted to the diffusion of the Gospel; horticulture, natural history, and botany, 

 afforded the brief recreation he allowed himself from his daily toils. His 

 favourite plants were the Amaryllidaceous family, and to him Ave are indebted 

 for our knowledge of many of them. He was Ijorn in 17fil, at Hackleton in 

 Leicestershire, and embarked for India in 1793. In 1800 he was settled at 

 Serampore; and he closed the labours of his useful hfe in 183-4, beloved by all 

 who knew him, honoured by all whom his name has reached ; having translated 

 and superintended the publication of the Gospel in forty Oriental languages, 

 which he had the perseverance to acquire for that purpose. Born in the hum- 

 blest circumstances, often uncertain of his daily bread, at first a journeyman 

 shoemaker, then a village schoolmaster, he had, before his departure from Eng- 

 land, taught himself to read the Bible in Greek, Latin, Hebrew, French, Italian, 

 and Dutch, and had become conspicuous by his eloquent preaching, and his 

 ardent desire to bring about the mission to India, which originated in his 

 powerful mind. When he arrived there, he found it necessary to offer his ser- 

 vices by a hand-bill, to make or repair shoes ; and after he had risen to the head 

 of a flourishing establishment, and occupied the chair of three professorships, he 

 was not ashamed to nail up the original hand-bill against the wall of his study, 

 but took pleasure in considering from what a humble grade he had been lifted, 

 up to a more useful and distinguished station, by the grace of God and his ovra. 

 virtuous perseverance." 



Elm Cottage, Taunton. John Young. 



HAMILTON'S IMPROVED SUPPORTER FOR HYACINTHS, 



We have received specimens of the above, and regret that they were 

 not forwarded to us before ; for it is one of the great objects of the 

 Florist and Garden Miscellany to call attention to all contrivances 

 of the kind. 



It consists of three wires in two fixed rings, forming a cradle 

 for the bulb, above which there is a movable ring, to shde up and 

 down, according to the height at which the stem may require assist- 

 ance : under the cradle and within the glass the wires extend, acting 

 as springs to keep the contrivance steady. 



Its use is not confined to the glasses usually made for Hyacinths ; 



