82 THE APOTHECARIES' GARDEN 



sythia, Weigelia and others now common in 

 English gardens. 



Robert Fortune was not long at the Physic 

 Garden. Dr Forbes Royle, who had tried to 

 persuade the East India Company to introduce 

 Cinchona trees into India, had obtained the 

 Company's consent to ask the Committee of 

 the Physic Garden for the loan of Fortune's 

 services, to attempt the importation of tea 

 plants. The Committee allowed Fortune to 

 give up his post and enter the service of John 

 Company at once, and undertake this important 

 task. Hence came " India tea." Lindley then 

 appointed Thomas Moore as Fortune's suc- 

 cessor. 



Perhaps the Garden Committee were not so 

 public-spirited as they appear in parting readily 

 with Robert Fortune ; for the cost of improve- 

 ments in the Garden, when Lindley and 

 Fortune were working together, amounted to 

 1,220. The East India Company could better 

 afford such sums. 



And so there arose once more the old ques- 

 tion of how the Garden bill could be paid. 

 It was finally answered by private members 

 subscribing 500, and 700 being paid from 

 the Society's funds. No help came from the 

 learned societies, nor from Chelsea landlords, 

 and it was evident that this frequent appeal for 

 funds could not continue. 



Under Lindley the long and honourable life 

 of the old Apothecaries' Garden had at last 

 reached its climax. Now, in 1853, lis decline 

 and fall were in sight. Expenses were at once 

 reduced. Lindley s services were dispensed 



