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Garden expensive to keep up. When in 1685 it cost 

 them ^130, besides the Curator's salary, they made an 

 arrangement, by which they paid him ^/^loo a year, out 

 of which he had to keep up the Garden, and was allowed 

 to sell the plants. Watt was the first Curator under this 

 new plan, and Doody, a botanist of some standing who 

 succeeded him, was under the same conditions. Philip 

 Miller was appointed Curator, after the land had been 

 given by Sir Hans Sloane, and other well-known men 

 have been connected with it. After 1724, besides the 

 Curator, a " Praefectus Horti," or Director, was appointed 

 to visit and inspect the Garden, and report on its con- 

 dition to the Company. Sometimes there was a little 

 rivalry between the two, and at one time this occasioned 

 two lists of the plants contained in the Garden being 

 published, one by Isaac Rand, the other by Philip Miller. 

 Among the famous names in botany or horticulture con- 

 nected with the Garden are Dr. Dale, Mrs. Elizabeth 

 Blackwell, James Sherard and his brother William, 

 Joseph Millar, William Curtis, Forsyth, Robert Fortune 

 and Dr. Lindley, and Nathaniel Ward, the inventor of 

 " Wardian Cases." But of all the Curators, Philip 

 Miller was one of the most eminent, and did most 

 for the Garden. His Dictionary was for years the 

 standard work on horticulture, and went through 

 numerous editions and translations. He published a 

 catalogue of plants in the Physic Garden in 1730. 

 The last " Prasfectus Horti " was Lindley, who held 

 the office from 1835 to 1853. During that time the 

 expenses were getting too heavy for the Society, and 

 after his death no successor was appointed. Thomas 

 Moore, who was co-editor with Lindley of the well- 

 known " Treasury of Botany," and author of several 



