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they belong to t!ie commercial or the scientific class of shnplers, 

 that their trouble in collecting, drying, pressing, arranging, 

 packing, and distril)utiiig, either to friends or customers, is 

 not followed by an ample remuneration. Our reader's special 

 attention is solicited to the article 195, wherein he may learn 

 that a parcel of rarities, comprehending the combined collections 

 of three eminent botanists, whose names are published as a gua- 

 rantee for the genuineness of the articles, sold for half-a- crown; 

 and there are other contributors to enhance the value of this lot, 

 but they are probably not so well known, or are of a humbler 

 social grade. We need not ask what they think such a parcel 

 should have sold for ; as Hudil)ras, or somebody else, says, — 



" The honest price of anything, 

 Is just as much as it will bring." 



But probably they will say that the collections of great men 

 are not always objects of great estimation. 



Finally, it is to be hoped that the time-honoured practice of 

 the donor's attaching his name to his gift, will never be dis- 

 continued. It tells us (the ticket is meant by it) to whom we 

 are indebted for overstocking the market; and also that the 

 commercial botanist is not the only one of the brotherhood who 

 has helped to make plants scarce and specimens cheap. 



KENTISH BOTANY. 



Memoranda of a few Hours' Botanizing on Barham Downs, and 

 about Broome Park, near Canterbury . 



To have travelled from London to the ecclesiastical metro- 

 polis of England, in the days even of fast coaches, and to have 

 returned home the same day after transacting a little business, 

 would have been deemed a feat worth relating. By the facili- 

 ties of railway locomotion, it is an easy journey to south Kent, 

 either to Folkestone, Dover, or Canterbury, returning home to 

 dinner. 



The botanist who lives in London may have his breakfast com- 

 fortably before starting, go to the station about eight o'clock, 

 and reacli his destination, say Canterbury, by teu o'clock or half 



