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,i second edition, with coloured plates, in 1790. His Lec- 

 tures were published after his death, to which is prefixed 

 his portrait. His portrait is also given in Dr. Thornton's 

 Botany. He died in 1799, was buried in Battersea church- 

 yard, and on his grave-stone these lines are inscribed : — 



While living kerbs shall spring profusely wild, 

 Or gardens cherish all I hot's sweet and (jay, 



S<> long thy works shall please, dear nature's child. 

 So long thy memory suffer no decay. 



Thomas Martyn, Professor of Botany at Cambridge, 

 whose striking portrait, from a picture by liussel, appears in 

 Dr. Thornton's superb work on botany. He died in June, 

 IS25, in the ninetieth year of his age. His edition of Mil- 

 ler's Gardener's Dictionary, appeared in 4 vols, folio. Mr. 

 'Johnson observes, that this work " requires no comment. 

 It is a standard, practical work, never to be surpassed." 

 Mr. Martyn also published Flora Rustica, a description of 

 plants, useful or injurious in husbandry, with coloured plates, 

 4 vols. 8vo. 



Sir W. Chambers. There are portraits of him by Sir J. 

 Reynolds, engraved by Collyer and by Green; one by Cotes, 

 engraved by Houston, in 1772; and a profile by Pariset, 

 after a drawing by Falconot. He died in 179G, aged sixty- 

 nine. He published, 



1. Designs for Chinese Buildings. 



2. Plans and Views of the Buildings and Gardens at 

 Kew. 



o. A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening, second edition, 

 with additions. To which is annexed an Explanatory Dis- 



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