4(32 Prof. Schultes on the 



the opulent nurseryman and others soon raised a considerable 

 sum: nevertheless this plan came to nothing, as the son was 

 thereby offended. However, the young Miller died soon after, 

 and had a monument erected for himself and his father together. 



We also visited the garden of the cheerful Haworth, at 

 Queen's Elms, near Chelsea, who indefatigably and exclusively 

 studies the Succulent Plants, and possesses many extremely 

 rare ones. More than 200 Aloes, 360 Mesembryanthema, 

 and 90 Crassulae, are in his collection. Mr. Haworth seems a 

 very communicative and kind-hearted little man : he has the 

 happiness already of being a grandfather, though in the prime 

 of his age. We had wished to see the respectable Mr. Salis- 

 bury's garden ; but were told that he had sold it, and was 

 living with a friend in the country during the fine weather. 

 We w'ere sorry to lose the opportunity of being acquainted 

 with this celebrated botanist. Fortunately, we had the plea- 

 sure of seeing in London the Nestor of the London botanists, 

 who has already passed the eightieth degree of human latitude, 

 — namely, the celebrated Dr.Sims, whom we found indefatiga- 

 bly employed in the continuation of the Botanical Magazine, 

 although with a trembling hand, and a head bowing down un- 

 der the ponderous weight of the reverend silver crown of age. 



A no less venerable and highly amiable sage is the good 

 old man of the mountains, {e monte Grcanpio,) Sir Archibald 

 Menzids, of the Grampians, among which he was born, at 

 Chapel Place, in the month of March 1754. (!) Flora has pre- 

 sented this valuable old man with a truly viridem seiicctutem, 

 in reward for the homage which he offered to her in his twice 

 repeated voyage round the world. " And were another ex- 

 pedition going, I would immediately set off again," said Sir 

 Archibald to us. He has lately returned from an excursion 

 to Scotland; when his countrymen on taking leave of him 

 threw the Menziesia* , accompanied with a thousand blessings, 

 into the coach. He is now as active as a person of forty, and 

 is in great practice as a surgeon in London. A neater her- 

 barium than that of Sir A. Menzies I never saw : the Cypera- 

 ceae and Gramineae, as well as the Mosses and Ferns, (the 



* We must really beg leave to question the accurncy of this nnecdote. 

 We had the happiness of receiving Mr. Menzies at our house in his return 

 from the Highlands, and heard nothing of the story of the Mcnzicaia. Nor 

 can Dr. Schultes be aware of the extreme rarity of this plant. Scarcely a 

 single botanist has seen it on its native mountains, not even Mr. Menzies 

 himself; so that we well believe that if our venerable friend had been 

 greeted with such a shower of his beautiful namesake, the day would have 

 been one of the happiest of his life; and the freshly pulled specimens 

 would have been at least as acceptable as the blessings which accompanied 

 them. — Ed. 



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