104 Darlington’s Memoriais, §c. 
I imagine it would prove profitable to you, and [ am sure it would 
do you honor.”’—p. 403. Repeating the same advice in a later 
letter, Franklin adds in the Poor Richard vein :— 
“Tt is true, many people are fond of accounts of old buildings, mon- 
uments, &c.; but there is a number who would be much better pleased 
with such accounts as you could afford them; and for one I confess, 
that, if I could find in any Italian travels, a receipt for making Parme- 
san cheese, it would give me more satisfaction than a transcript of any 
inscription from any old stone whatever.’”’-—p. 403. 
The correspondence of Bartram occupying a greater number of 
es than was expected, the editor felt obliged to restrict very 
much his selections from the correspondence of Marshall, the au- 
thor of Arbustum Americanum. 
Humphry Marshall, the founder of the second botanic garden 
in this country, and the author of “the first truly indigenous 
botanical essay published in this western hemisphere,” was born 
in West Bradford, Chester County, Pennsylvania, on the 10th of 
October, 1722. His father was a native of Gratton, in Derby- 
shire, England, who came to Pennsylvania about the year 1697, 
and settled near Darby, but afterwards removed to the forks of 
the Brandywine. Humphry, who was the eighth of nine chil- 
dren, “used often to state, that he never went to school a day 
after he was twelve years of age, and consequently he was in- 
structed only in the rudiments of the plainest English education. 
e was employed in agricultural labors until he was old enough 
to be apprenticed to the business of a stone-mason, which trade 
he followed for a few years, and until his marriage, after which 
he took charge of his father’s farm. In 1764, he built with his 
own hands a brick addition to the paternal dwelling, when he 
also erected a green-house adjoining it, “doubtless the first con- 
servatory of the kind ever seen, or thought of, in the county of 
Chester.” From the second story he projected a little observa- 
tory, in which to indulge his fondness for astronomical observa- 
tions. From the letters of his correspondents, the good Dr. Foth- 
ergill and Dr. Franklin, we find that the latter ordered a reflect- 
ing telescope for Marshall, to which the former added a microscope 
and a thermometer, and paid for the whole! And a later letter 
from Franklin acknowledges the reception of Marshall’s “ obser- 
vations on the spots of the sun,” which he communicated to the 
Royal Society, where they were highly spoken of, and a portion 
was printed in the Philosophical Transactions, vol. 64, p. 194. 
In 1773, he purchased a tract of land adjoining the site of the 
present village of Marshallton, where he built, like Bartram, with 
his own hands the house, of which the editor has given a picto- 
tial representation. At the same time he laid out the botanical 
garden which he long sustained, and which “soon became the 
