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carried out under the direction of an interim com- 

 mittee of eight elected by the proprietors, and of 

 this committee I need hardly say Hopkirk was the 

 chief. Office-bearers were elected at a general meet- 

 ing of the subscribers held towards the close of the 

 same year. Sir Islay Campbell of Succoth, Bart., 

 became president, with Hopkirk as vice-president, 

 and Stewart Murray as curator. 



Of this old walled garden I need say little. Not a 

 trace of it now remains. The lodge with its hand- 

 some verandah at the north entrance, the greenhouse 

 near the middle of the grounds, the ornamental 

 plots, the rockwork almost surrounded by a pond 

 full of aquatic plants, — these are all long ago things 

 of the past. Streets have obliterated them. To 

 Hopkirk and Stewart Murray fell most of the 

 planning and arrangement of the place, so that it 

 m.ight be at the same time beautiful and instructive; 

 and their work succeeded as all work does in which 

 the heart lies. Professor (afterwards Sir) Wm. Jr 

 Hooker was about this time appointed to the Chair 

 of Botany, and he rendered great assistance. By 

 the year 1821 the Garden contained upwards of 9000 

 species. Two woodcuts in Loudon's Bncrjclopceclia of 

 Gardening (2nd Edition, 1821) give some idea of the 

 Garden as it was then, — the one a plan of the 

 grounds, the other a view of the hothouses and 

 their surroundings. 



Some time after the Garden was opened, a little 

 book was published — written by the Curator — which 

 contains many interesting details as to the place 

 and the plants there. It is entitled. Companion to 

 the Glasgoiv Botanic Garden, or popular notices of 

 some of the more remarkable plants contained in it. 

 In some of the copies there is a plan of the old 

 Garden. From this little work, I find that there 

 were different plots set apart for collections of hardy 

 herbaceous plants, medical plants for illustrating 

 the lectures at College and for sale, plants used in 

 agriculture, or esteemed as esculents, or of economic 



