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flowers from every part of the world ; but 

 the greater portion of the nursery is now 

 covered by buildings. 



Curtis's Botanical Garden, which had 

 been in Lambeth Marsh, was removed to 

 the north side of the Fulham Road, near 

 the Queen's Elm, about 1789. The proprie- 

 tors published an annual catalogue, and 

 there was a botanical library ; subscribers of 

 a guinea a year were entitled to admission 

 to the gardens for self and friend, and 

 a payment of two guineas gave an un- 

 limited right of entry and a certain quantity 

 of seeds, roots, etc. The space occupied by 

 this business remained open within my recol- 

 lection, and under other management was 

 devoted to similar objects, though not on 

 the same ambitious scale. 



Besides the nurseries instituted by London 

 and Wise, and by Curtis or his successors, 

 there were others kept in the first half of 

 this century by Rigby, Siggers, Conway, and 

 Kirke in the same neighbourhood. There 

 was another on part of the site of the South 

 Kensington Museum and Brompton Oratory, 



