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acquaintance with English botany. Some have distinguished 

 themselves in this way; and I cannot omit to mention, with 

 applause, the names of Fairchild, Knowlton, Gordon, and 

 Miller. The first of these made himself known to the Royal 

 Society, by some * New Experiments relating to the diffe- 

 rent, and sometimes contrary motion of the Sap;' which were 

 printed in the Phil. Trans, vol. xxxiii. He also assisted in 

 making experiments, by which the sexes of plants were illus- 

 trated, and the doctrine confirmed. Mr. Fairchild died in 

 November, 1729.*' 



GEORGE RICKETS, of Hoxton, was much noted about 1688 

 and 1689. Rea, in his Flora, says of him, " Mr. Rickets, 

 of Hogsden, often remembered, the best and most faithful 

 florist now about London." Rea describes, in his Flora, 

 one hundred and ninety different kinds of tulips, and says, 

 "All these tulips, and many others, may be had of Mr. 

 Rickets.'* Worlidge thus speaks of him: "he hath the 

 greatest variety of the choicest apples, pears, cherries, plums, 

 apricots, peaches, malacolones, noctorines, figgs, vines, cur- 

 rans, gooseberries, rasberries, mulberries, medlars, walnuts, 



Three of these Sermons are in the second volume of " Thirty Sermons on 

 Moral and Religious Subjects, by the Rev. W. Jones;" 2 vols. 8vo. 1790, 

 price 16s. There are other editions of Mr. Jones's Sermons, viz. Rev. W. 

 Jones, of Nayland, his Theological, Philosophical, and Miscellaneous Works^ 

 with Life, 12 rols. 8vo. neat, 71. 7s. 6d. 1801. Sermons by the late Rev. 

 William Jones, of Nayland, Suffolk : Chaplain to the Right Rev. George 

 Home, Bishop of Norwich; 1 vol. 8vo. with Portrait of the Author, price 12s. 

 Dove, St. John's Square, Printer, 1828. " Of this faithful servant of God, 

 (the Rev. W. Jones) I can speak both from personal knowledge and from 

 his writings. He was a man of quick penetration, of extensive learning, 

 and the soundest piety ; and he had, beyond any other man I ever knew, 

 the talent of writing upon the deepest subjects to the plainest understand- 

 ings." Bishop Horsleys Charges. The Rev. Samuel Ayscough, of the British 

 Museum, began, in 1 790, to preach this annual sermon, and, I believe, con- 

 tinued it for fourteen years. 



