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resembles one continuous pleasure garden from 

 the many living hedges there are everywhere." 

 He notes that the furze and bracken on Berk- 

 hamsted Common make good fuel. He com- 

 ments severely on the cold cottages, with no 

 " moss " packed in the roof, and with grates 

 which allow the heat of the fire to go up the 

 chimney, and which burn a large amount of 

 fuel ; also on the unoccupied women, sitting 

 round the fire " without doing the least thing 

 more than prate." 



At last Kalm left for America ; and among 

 the plants he brought back from that country 

 must have been some of the beautiful heath- 

 like Kalmias. His plants were nearly lost, for 

 the captain of his ship possibly distracted by 

 Kalm's incessant questioning ran his ship 

 ashore at the mouth of the Thames, and had to 

 land his passengers. 



At the Physic Garden, Isaac Rand, the 

 Demonstrator of Plants, was succeeded by 

 Joseph Miller (no relation of Philip Miller), 

 Apothecary and F.R.S., author of the Compen- 

 dious Herbal, and two MS. volumes of coloured 

 drawings of plants, now in the Apothecaries' 

 Library. Rand was succeeded by William / 

 Hudson, Apothecary, F.R.S., and author of ' 

 Flora Anglica, in honour of whom Linnaeus 

 named the Hudsonias. 



Although Sir Hans Sloane had given 150 

 towards the repair of the greenhouse, it was 

 found at his death that he had bequeathed 

 nothing towards the maintenance of the Garden. 

 The Royal Society was then asked, through the 

 Earl of Macclesfield, the President, to help in 



