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" The reasons which induced the above-mentioned societies 

 to erect the monument in question, were, chiefly, because 

 neither monument, nor tomb, nor even any recording public 

 notice whatever (the * monumentum asre perennius' of his 

 own immortal works excepted) had previously been provided 

 by any one. 



" The relatives of Miller were very few; he had no family, 

 save two sons, one of whom died early, and the other, 

 Charles Miller, at the age of 78, who spent the greater part 

 of his long life in India, and returned not until after his 

 father's funeral ; and over his grave, in the old church-yard 

 of Chelsea, a stone and sculptured brass record his name 

 and age and parentage, together with that of his aged and 

 more distinguished sire. This stone, too, was placed by the 

 above-mentioned public-spirited societies, (unto both which 

 the writer has the honour to belong) at the same time as the 

 monument, stated by Faulkner, to the never-dying fame of 

 the father. 



" But it is even now scarcely known, that when those me- 

 ritorious testimonials of public gratitude were showered over 

 the memory of Philip Miller, who had laboured so long and 

 so successfully in the sciences which he loved, there was only 

 one individual in existence, and that a very aged person, 

 who had seen and attended the funeral of Miller, and who 

 alone could point out the very spot where the ' Prince of 

 Horticulture' was inhumed. This venerable person's name 

 was Goodyer ; he was the parish clerk of Chelsea church for 

 half a century, and died as such in 1818, at the great age of 

 ninety-four. 



" Nevertheless, though last, it should not be concealed 

 that I myself had actually stated and published, in the win- 



