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with that of " the immortal Swede, whose master mind re- 

 duced the confusion and discord of botany to harmony." 

 He calls Miller " the perfect botanist and horticulturist.''* 

 The following spirited tribute to Mr. Miller, appeared in 

 the Gentleman's Magazine for June, 1828 : 



" Chelsea , June 5. 



" MR. URBAN, In the first volume, page 250, of the se- 

 cond edition of Faulkner s History of Chelsea, just pub- 

 lished, which contains a very copious fund of historical, anti- 

 quarian, and biographical information, I find inserted the 

 monument and epitaph of Philip Miller, who was so justly 

 styled ' the prince of horticulture' by contemporary botanists, 

 and whose well-earned fame will last as long as the sciences 

 of botany and horticulture shall endure. The epitaph of 

 this distinguished man is correctly given ; but the historian 

 appears not to have duly appreciated, if he was even aware 

 of, the circumstances which induced the Fellows of the Lin- 

 naean and Horticultural Societies of London to erect this 

 grateful tribute of respectful esteem to him, who in his life- 

 time, had done more than any individual, ancient or modern, 

 towards enlarging the boundaries of the science of horticul- 

 ture, and very extensively the far more difficult one of bo- 

 tany likewise. These he accomplished in the numerous edi- 

 tions of his unrivalled Dictionary, and in his elaborate intro- 

 ductions to botanical knowledge. 



* Dr. Pulteney relates this anecdote of Mr. Miller : " He was the only 

 person I ever knew who remembered to have seen Mr. Ray. I shall not 

 easily forget the pleasure that enlightened his countenance, it so strongly 

 expressed the Virgilium tantum vidi, when, in speaking of that revered man, 

 he related to me that incident of his youth." I regret that Mr. Ray only 

 meditated a work to have been entitled Horti Angliae. Had he written it, 

 I should have felt a singular pride in introducing his valued name in the 

 present imperfect volume. 



