2 1 6 Gleanings in Old Garden Literature. 



and kitchen garden. But the latter originally 

 made his name as a writer, not only on 

 the British but on the exotic flora, by 

 the publication, in 1821, of his Collectanea 

 Botanica and other works. The exertions 

 of John Lindley were most indefatigable, 

 and covered the whole ground. There was 

 no section of botany .and horticulture which 

 he did not treat with ability and public ad- 

 vantage. In 1829 he delivered his introduc- 

 tory lecture before the University of London. 

 His printed contributions to the branch of 

 letters of which he had made a special 

 study, extended over a quarter of a century, 

 and occupy nearly two columns of the small 

 type of the Bibliographers Manual. 



At the same time, in Scotland, Robert Kaye 

 Greville offered a splendid contribution to 

 botanical learning in his Scottish Cryptogamic 

 Flora, which came out in six large volumes 

 between 1822 and 1828, and which seems 

 entitled to the distinction of being considered 

 the earliest specific work on that subject in 

 our literature. Mr. Greville is also known as 

 the author of the Flora Edinensis (8vo, 1824) 



