348 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [NOVEMBER 
In 1799 Dr. Dancer went to practice in Kingston. He made 
the medicinal plants of the island a special study, and published 
in 1801 “ The medical assistant, or Jamaica practice of physic.” 
He died in 1811. 
The colony had now to undergo a period of difficulty and 
distress, as the slave trade was abolished in 1807 without com- 
pensation to the planters, and the wars with France and the 
United States caused great depression. Accordingly in 1810 the 
Liguanea garden was sold, and that at Bath was never after- 
wards adequately supported. 
In 1825 Dr. Jas. MacFadyen was appointed island botanist. 
In 1837 appeared the first volume of his Flora of Jamaica; in 
1850 part of the second volume was printed, and this was all 
that was published. He did not retain his appointment long; 
and in 1828 Thomas Higson was appointed island botanist and 
curator of the botanic garden at Bath. He presented to the 
garden a collection of living plants collected by himself in South 
America. 
In 1829 the garden at Bath, of one and three-fourths acres, 
was increased by three acres to the west. Higson left Bath in 
1832; and in 1846 Nathaniel Wilson was appointed island 
botanist with the care of Bath garden. Wilson had been in the 
gardens at Kew and at Kensington for several years, and was 4 
most capable man. He kept up a correspondence with Sir W. J. 
Hooker, director of Kew gardens, and introduced a very large 
number of plants from Kew and other parts of the world, trust- 
ing to be repaid his expenditure by the liberality of the 
assembly. Behmeria nivea was imported by him, and he formed 
a very extensive collection of fiber plants. He also received 
from Kew in 1846 and 1847 the mangosteen, litchi, durian, and 
Musa Cavendishii. In 1849-1850 he reports the arrival © 
Poinciana, Spathodea, Bougainvillea spectabilis, Cesalpinia Sappan, 
Ambherstia, and Assam tea. - 
In 1851 there was some intention of moving the site of the 
garden elsewhere, and Wilson, referring to Bath, says in his 
report for that year: : 
