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MEMOIRS 



OF 



PHILIP MILLER, F.R.S. 



FORMERLY GARDENER TO THE COMPANY OF APOTHECARIES 

 AT THEIR BOTANICAL GARDEN, CHELSEA. 



PHILIP MILLER, the subject of this Memoir, was 

 born in 169L Various are the conjectures as to 

 the spot where he was born, and whence his family- 

 came, but nothing certain can be ascertained re- 

 specting them. His father, who was a Scotchman 

 by birth, after having lived for some time as gar- 

 dener to a gentleman at Bromley, in Kent, com- 

 menced business on his own account as a market 

 gardener, near Deptford. 



After Philip left school, he assisted his father 

 for a short time in his business ; but being ex- 

 tremely fond of flowers and plants, and anxious 

 to devote himself more particularly to the culti- 

 vation of his favourite pursuit, he very early com- 

 menced business as a florist and grower of orna- 

 mental shrubs, on a piece of ground in that part of 

 St George's Fields now occupied by the Queen's 

 Bench. 



Miller was not long there before he attracted the 

 attention of several gentlemen ; amongst whom, 



