Mr. Hogg afterwards went to Liverpool, and was apprenticed as a printer, working 

 on the Liverpool Mercury. After some months, tliis paper was suspended on account 

 of its editor having published a severe article reflecting on the government, for having 

 permitted a British soldier to be flogged under a guard of Hessians. His indentures 

 being cancelled, he continued to work at his trade for some time longer, in another 

 office. 



It was during his apprenticeship in Liverpool that he first showed the remarkable 

 love for plants which so distinguished him through after life, every leisure opportunity- 

 being devoted to botanical excursions to the surrounding country, and his first efforts 

 at cultivation being the growing of plants in pots upon the beams of the loft in which 

 the printing presses were placed. 



From Liverpool he went to Edinburgh, where he obtained employment at his trade 

 for a short time ; but finally, on account of the tastes he had acquired for horticultural 

 pursuits, he abandoned it, and went to the Messrs. Dicksons' nurseries, at Hawick, not 

 far from where he was born, to obtain a knowledge of his new profession. "When 

 about twentj'^-one or twenty-two years of age, he went to Raleigh, in Essex, England, 

 to take charge of a farm belonging to a Mr. Alex. Hume, his uncle, who was purser to 

 Capt. Cook on board the Endeavor, and accompanied him in his celebrated voyage 

 around the world. Here, in consequence of the unhealthy location, it being in the fen 

 country of Essex, he w^as taken ill with a bilious fever, which rendered it necessary for 

 him to remove elsewhere. He therefore went to London, and obtained employment 

 in the celebrated nurseries of Messrs. Lee & Kennedy, at Hammersmith, whence he 

 was sent to a situation near Reading in Berkshire, and he afterward went to a situation 

 inTIerefordshire ; but as neither of these were what are technically called plant places, 

 he, after an absence of two or three years, returned to Messrs. Lee & Kennedy, who 

 soon obtained for him the charge of the green-houses belonging to Wm. Kent, Esq., of 

 London. This gentleman was one of the merchant princes of England, an enthusiastic 

 lover of plants, employing his wealth and using the influence of his position in promo- 

 ting horticultural taste. Having a very extensive correspondence abroad, he was 

 enabled to obtain many new and valuable plants. In this situation Mr. Hogg had 

 every opportunity of gratifying his love for plants, and of becoming acquainted with 

 the greatest rarities then known to the botanical world. 



The reputation which Mr. Kent's establishment had of being by far the choicest 

 and largest collection of rare plants then existing in England, as a private collection, 

 brought Mr. Hogg in communication with all the most noted horticulturists and col- 

 lectors of the day ; and the privilege which he had of exchanging duplicates of any 

 of his own rarities for those of others, and thus enlarging his own collection, enabled 

 him to attain to that great practical knowledge of plants for which he was so well 

 known. It was here that he became intimate with ^IcNab, of Edinburgh ; Murray, 

 of Glasgow; Shepherd, of Liverpool; Anderson, of Chelsea; ArroN, of Kew; Pursh, 

 Goldie, Don, and other collectors of note. The extensive knowledge of plants which 

 he thus obtained, procured his election as a member of the Linnaean Society and 

 the London Horticultural Society. Of the latter society he was one of the earliest 

 members. 



After occupying this position for ten or twelve years, he was obliged to leav 

 account of ill health, consequent on the fever he had in Essex, which left him 



