XXVili MEMOIRS OF THE 
at every tide to feed. The apparatus for every part of this 
operation was minutely drawn and added to the store. 
Thus years passed on, adding highly finished drawings by 
Edwards, and his own minute description to each, until, 
about 1797, when commenced the uncomfortable feelings 
on his chest, attended, at times, with extreme nervous irri- 
tability, from which he was seldom free long together to 
the time of his death. This uncomfortable sensation made 
him thoughtful of the state of his property ; and having no 
one in his family who was likely to succeed him in his gar- 
den, he cultivated an acquaintance with Mr. William Salis- 
bury, who was at the time the gardener of Simmons, 
Ksq., of Paddington ; and for the introduction of him to 
the Botanic Garden (more as a profitable business, than 
as a learned successor, to support the well-merited 
fame of its founder) he was associated as the partner 
of Mr. Curtis; and an agreement was entered into, 
that on Mr. Curtis’s demise, Mr. Salisbury should pay 
certain annual sums as iuterest, until he paid six hundred 
pounds principal money, for the whole establishment 
as it then stood, with houses, library, &. This sum 
was paid by Mr. Salisbury, who continued the garden many 
years after the death of Mr. Curtis; but removing it to 
Sloane Street, in hope of more patronage, the spot was 
neglected, and is now part of a nursery ground, with few 
vestiges of its former state. Mr. Curtis, in his will, left 
the money arising from the Botanic Garden and other 
sources, with the property of the Flora Londinensis and 
the Botanical Magazine, to his widow and daughter ; and 
the control and management of his works and papers to 
his friend Dr. John Sims, one of his executors; but it was 
not thought advisable to add to the Flora Londinensis, on 
account of the unavoidable heavy expences of it; and it 
was sold, in 1813, to Mr. George Graves with a few old 
