64 THE APOTHECARIES' GARDEN 



snuff-box lids. Some of these, he was in- 

 formed, had been sold at an enormous profit in 

 China. 



On June i6th, 1748, he is again at the 

 Chelsea Physic Garden, and describes it as 

 " one of the largest collections of all rare foreign 

 plants, so that it is said in that respect to rival 

 the Botanic Gardens of both Paris and 

 Leyden." 



In " one room of the Orange-house, in which 

 the plants are set in the winter time which 

 cannot bear exposure in the open air, but still 

 do not require any heat, stands Sir Hans 

 Sloane, carved in white alabaster with a scroll 

 of paper in his hand, on a white marble 

 pedestal." 



He describes as a " great rarity " Ray's 

 Herbarium 1 of dried plants, with the names of 

 the plants in Ray's own handwriting in a room 

 in the " Orangery," and is enthusiastic over 

 Philip Miller's knowledge of botany and horti- 

 culture. 



Kalm journeyed from London to Woodford, 

 and on to Little Gaddesden, hoping to get 

 information on English agriculture from 

 William Ellis, who wrote on it, but according 

 to Kalm, had little practical knowledge. 



He is delighted with the beauty of quickset 

 hedges, and the shelter they afford, and prefers 

 them to the " dead-hedges " in Sweden. He 

 says : " The beautiful appearance of the country 

 must be ascribed to industry and labour. It 



1 This was presented to the British Museum in 1862. It had 

 been left to the Apothecaries' Society, together with Rand's 

 herbarium, and his own, by Dr. Dale, a member of the Society, in 

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