160 Obitiiat-y. 



In 1827, The Florist's Guide, or Cultivator's Directory; continued in 

 monthly numbers until 1831. 



In 1827, Flora Australasica, continued in monthly numbers until 1828. 



In June, 1829, The British Flower-Garden, Series the Second; continued 

 in monthlv numbers, by its author, until June, 1831; and subsequently, and 

 now, by David Don, Esq. 



In 1830, Hortus Britannicus, edition the second. 



In May, 183], the first number of a work entitled " The Botany of Great 

 Britain ; " the descriptions by Mr. Sweet, the engravings by H. Weddell. 

 See Gard. Mag., vii. 345. 



These works supply a characteristic memorial of their author, and one 

 which will be lasting. The work on the G^eraniacege, and " quelques autres 

 ouvrawes precieux pour la botonique des jardins," obtained from M. de Can- 

 doUe, in 1825, the denomination of the genus Sweetz«, in honour of Mr. 

 Sweet. This genus is founded on the Galega longifoiia and hliformis of 

 Jacquin. This honour was very grateful to the feelings of Mr. Sweet : but 

 he had, indeed, much merited it. Our deceased friend was a man of modest 

 and retired manners, but yet of an enthusiastic and communicative disposition. 

 We have thought that, in the two last points of view, his British Warblers is 

 the one of his works which best images him. Some sprightly passages in that 

 work present him, as it has been our happiness to see and hear him, imparting 

 cheerfully and cordially the information he possessed, for the entertainment 

 and the good of others. In the Gardener^s Magazine, there are com- 

 munications from him in i. 31., iii. 297., iv. 182., y. 106. 332., vi. 61.3.: and 

 in the Magazine of Natural History, in ii. 88. 101. 113., iii. 434. 448; 46 1 . 

 Mr. Sv/eet has left a widow without family. — I). D. and J. D. 



Died, at Fulham, on the 28th of January last, in the 81st year of his age, 

 Regmald Whitlei/, senior partner of the late firm of Whitley, Brames, and Milne, 

 nursery and seedsmen, of Fulham. He was the second son of the Rev, 

 Edward Whitley, formerly rector of Sutton Bonnington, in the county of 

 Nottingham, and afterwards vicar of Merriott, in the county of Somerset. 

 His education was partly received at the grammar school of Crewkerne ; and he 

 was a short time subsequently under the tuition of the master of Bridgewater 

 school, and from under whose care he was removed on account of ill health, 

 supposed to be induced from a too great degree of confinement, and that want 

 of constant exercise and enjoyment of fresh air that seemed so essentially 

 necessary to his constitution. At an early period he discovered a decided 

 predilection for botanical pursuits; and though he might, as was then wished 

 by many of his friends, have gone into the navy under the most favourable 

 auspices, yet he was not interfered with in indulging his partiality for hor- 

 ticultural avocations ; and he accordingly engaged himself in cultivating as a 

 nursery a portion of ground at Merriott, forming part of the family property 

 there. In the year 1788, wishing to enlarge the sphere of his operations, and 

 extend his acquaintance with the objects of his study, he visited London, and 

 soon afterwards he became a partner with Mr. Thoburn in a nursery at Old 

 Brompton. He shortly after dying, Mr. Vv'^hitley intermarried with the widow 

 of his late colleague. He has left no children. In the year 1810 he removed 

 from Old Brompton to Fulham, and occupied the nursery grounds there, 

 before under the superintendence of Mr. Burchell. The business was carried 

 on twenty-three years under the firm of Whitley, Brames, and Milne. On 

 account of the death of one of his partners, and the relinquishment, from ill 

 health, of Mr. Milne the other partner, Mr. Whitley, at his advanced period 

 of life, and frequent indisposition from gout, found it expedient to engage with 

 some person to assist him in conducting the more active part of the business. 

 He consequently entered into an arrangement with Mr. Osborn, who became 

 his partner in 1833, and on whom the afTairs of the nursery at Fulham have, 

 since his death, devolved in conjunction with the executors of the deceased. 



