GARDENS OF CELEBRITIES 



scientific sense as pertaining to Nature and natural objects, and 

 that the first object of the apothecaries in founding the garden 

 was the study of botany in its relation to medicine, and not the 

 cultivation of the actual plants to be converted into drugs for the 

 pharmacopoeia, yet, from an ignorant outsider's point of view, it 

 seems a pity that the spot that for nearly 230 years was honourably 

 though not exclusively associated with one important branch 

 of the study of medicine, should now ignore that branch altogether, 

 instead of leading the van in the useful movement for its revival. 



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