ALEXANDER GARDEN 



1728-1792 

 Gardenia jasminoides- -ELLIS 



Alexander Garden, of Charleston, South Caro- 

 lina, was a valued friend of Marshall, Sr., and 

 such a diligent and graceful correspondent with 

 other eminent botanists of his day that much 

 which is interesting concerning his life can be 

 culled from his letters by those who will con 

 them with the affectionate attention they deserve 

 at the hands of an interested posterity. 



His father, also named Alexander, who was a 

 clergyman at Birse, near Aberdeen, Scotland, 

 went out in 1719 to Charleston and became rector 

 of St. Philip's Church there. He seems to have 

 been a good deal of an autocrat, for he lived in 

 the stirring times of religious revivalism and it 

 is related that after promising George White- 

 field his support, he denied him the use of St. 

 Philips because Whitefield had become a " field 

 preacher." 



Alexander the second was sent home to be 

 educated, and studied in Edinburgh under the 

 celebrated Dr. Gregory and Alston the botanist. 

 He graduated as an M. D. in Edinburgh and re- 



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