PRINCIPAL GARDENERS—WILLIAM MCNABB. 301 
The Collection of Plants is greatly Augmented, The Collection 
Seeds from the Late Mr. P. Good? (whose Death is so much 
Regretted) which was sown in the Spring Before you went away 
are doeing very well and all New to this Country. 
There was a very Valuable Collection of Living Plants Collected 
in the Province of Cyanna, South America intended for the 
aken By 
National Garden at Paris which was t wo English 
Privateers in August 1803 and Brought into this Country when His 
Majesty purchased them for Kew Garden re was 129 Large 
number of them dead. But them that is alive has made a Great 
Addition to the Collection at Kew and the Most of them are New. 
af 
full account of them, I have only to say that oe are doing very 
well; and every one is anxious that they should Flourish, For the 
Respect they owe to so worthy a Character as He who sent them. 
There are many of your Acquaintance Left the Gardens and 
many New faces Come. 
The old men in the Pleasure Garden are all much the same as 
usual. There is John Wheatly, Isaac Walker, Charles Aimer, 
John Colier, Romeo Forbes, John Fenn, Rd. Clue, Edward Dare, 
is Gardener to R ucker, Esqr., Near Wandsworth, Surrey, 
and is doing well. Duncan Montgomery is still with the Duke 
of Montrose. George Mackay is with Mr. Buchannan, Camberwell 
Nursery. James Archibald is still in His Place. Mr. Bearpark is 
gone to Colonel Bowman at Briton Hall Yorkshire to be Gardener ; 
itis the same Place that William Allen went to from Kew who l 
am sorry to say isno more. Mr. R. Chandler is doing ee well, 
Say that Mr. Philipson who went to the... .is no more. David 
Edgar from Richmond Hill is gone to the Marquess of Bath Near 
ath, He is going on very well. It is a much larger Concern than 
what he had before. 
Your Cousin Mr. Millar has been at Kew this 18 Months as Fore- 
man to Mr. Pepper. He is well, you will find a letter from Him in 
a Small Box of Annual Seeds which is sent on Board the Hope 
along with the Plants. 
* Peter Good (— 1803). See Britten and Boulg., Bibliog. Index. Name pre- 
Served in the greenhouse shrub Goodia. 
