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three in particular : the Andes of Ecuador, the North-western 

 Himalayas, and New Zealand. 



In the Andes he had an indefatif^able correspondent in the late 

 venerable Professor Jameson of Quito, who devoted a life-time to 

 the botanical exploration of the Andes of Ecuador and Colombia, 

 and especially of their loftier regions. For naany years Prof. 

 Jameson had at intervals sent seeds of alpine Andean plants 

 to both English and Scotch gardeners ; but owing to their deten- 

 tion in the hot damp port of Gruyaquil and the long subseijuent 

 voyage, these rarely arrived alive. When, however, the Isthmus 

 of Panama was traversed by thu rail, and by means of swift steamers 

 the passage from New Grenada to England was rendered compara- 

 tively short, Mr. Anderson Henry urged his friend to repeated 

 trials, the result of which and of the skill employed at the garden at 

 Hay Lodge was that a great many half-hardy Andean plants were 

 for the first time introduced into Europe in a living state. Of these 

 it is sufficient to specify the genera Fuchsia, Calceolaria, Draha, 

 Salvia, Tacsnnia, and various Jlelastomacece. 



In the North-western Himalaya Mr. Anderson Henry's corre- 

 spondents were relatives of his own ; and. to them w'e owe vai'ious 

 species of Primula, Androsace, Morina, Salvia, Genliana, Dra- 

 cocephalum, &c. To him, too, we owe the i-aising of the giant 

 Primula, P. prolifera (P. imperialis, Jungh.), from seeds sent by 

 Mr. Elwes from the Sikhim Himalaya, a single plant alone having 

 survived out of tlie whole batcb of sixty-seven ! 



Perhaps, however, the most remarkable of the many novelties 

 raised at Hay Lodge were the New-Zealand plants, wiiich 

 also \vere collected by relatives of his own ; and chief amongst 

 these were the Veronicas, of which the forms, both shrubby and 

 herbaceous {Li/allii, ■pinguifolia, salicornioides, Traversii, &c.), 

 were totally unlike any thing previously seen in cultivation, and 

 as grown together in a large frame in his garden presented a 

 most singular appearance ; for no one acquainted wath the 

 European Speedwells would, without proof by flower, imagine 

 that these were their congeners. 



It remains to add that Mr. Anderson Henry was as highly 

 esteemed as a man as he was as a horticulturalist ; he was a genial 

 companion with a fund of dry humour, and liberal in all relations 

 of life. He was twice mai'ried ; his first wife being Margaret 

 Johnston, who died in 1857 ; by her he had two children, 

 James, who died about 185(3, and a daughter who died in infancy. 

 Some years afier he married Jessie, daughter o^' the late Laurence 

 Brown, Esip, of Broughty Ferry ; she took the name of Henry on 

 succeeding to the estates of Woodend, Perthshire, as heiress of 

 entail. When considerably upwards of eighty, though still pos- 

 sessed of all his faculties, he was struck with apoplexy ; and, 

 after lingering some months, died amongst his plants, which 

 were daily brought to his room for his inspection, on the 21st 

 September, 1884. 



He was a Fellow of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, of 

 the Koyal and Botanical Societies of Edinburgh ; and at one 

 time was President of the latter. He was elected a Fellow of 

 the Liuneau Society in 18(35. [J. D. H.] 



