188 THE BOTANISTS OF PHILADELPHIA. 



ROBERT KILVINQTON. 



Robert Kilvington,'^ a well-known florist of Philadel- 

 phia, was born of a Yorkshire squire in 1803, and died in 

 1881, at the age of seventy-eight. He became gardener to 

 Mr. SheafF of Whitemarsh, about fifteen miles from the city. 

 Mr. Kilvington subsequently became engaged in the florist's 

 business, and interested himself in the meetings of the 

 Pennsylyania Horticultural Society. He also took an active 

 interest in the Academy of Natural Sciences, of which his 

 cousin, Dr. Thomas B. "Wilson, was one of the founders. 



He had his garden at the south-west corner of Nine- 

 teenth and Race Streets, where the building of the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences now stands. From there he removed 

 to Locust Street, west of Woodland Avenue, where he died. 



GEORGE SMITH. 



George Smith,t son of Benjamin Hayes and Margaretta 

 Dunn Smith, was born in Haverford Township, Delaware 

 County, February 12, 1804. He received the earlier part of 

 his education in the schools of the neighborhood, and, later, 

 was a pupil at the Academy in West Chester of Jonathan 

 Cause. He studied medicine at the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, and graduated there April 7, 1826. For five years 

 he practiced his profession in Darby and its vicinity, but 

 coming into possession of a very considerable estate, soon 

 after his marriage he retired from medicine, and for the 

 remainder of his life was chiefly occupied in the manage- 

 ment of his farms, and in attention to numerous public and 

 private trusts, and in the cultivation of his literary and 



* The Gardener's Monthly (Meehan), XXIII (1881), p. 345. 

 t Pennsylvania Magazine, VI : 182. 



