CHAPTER V 



Year 1722 brings new life to Physic Garden. James Sherard on 

 Garden Committee. Philip Miller, gardener, publishes The 

 Gardener's Dictionary. Cotton introduced into Georgia by the 

 Apothecaries. Isaac Rand, demonstrator. All members of 

 Apothecaries' Society taxed to maintain Garden. Wharf built. 

 Hot-houses. Further subscriptions called for. Monument to 

 Sir Hans Sloane by Rysbrack. Linnasus classifies all living 

 nature. Linnaeus visits Sir Hans Sloane and the Physic Garden ; 

 is allowed by Miller to take plants and dried specimens, 1736. 

 Peter Kalm, pupil of Linnaeus, visits Garden and Miller, 

 1748 ; walks in footsteps of Linnaeus to Putney Heath, and sees 

 the yellow furze ; describes green-houses in the Garden, visits 

 Sir Hans Sloane and the museum ; considers the Chelsea Garden 

 a rival of the botanic gardens of Paris and Leyden. William 

 Hudson, demonstrator. Philip Miller pensioned. Two cedars 

 cut down and sold in 1771. 



So the year 1722 brought new life. No 

 prescription of Dr. Sloane 's could have restored 

 a sick patient as his wise gilt did the fading 

 fortunes of the Physic Garden. 



A Garden Committee, including master and 

 wardens, was at once formed. James Sherard 

 was among its members an Apothecary in 

 Mark Lane, a well-known botanist, Fellow of 

 the Royal Society, friend of Ray and Petiver, 

 brother of William Sherard, the Fellow of 

 St. John's College, who founded the Sherardian 

 Professorship of Botany at Oxford. James 

 Sherard had been apprenticed as Apothecaries' 

 assistant to Charles Watts, a former manager of 

 the Garden, and had learnt his botany well. 



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