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facilitated the favourite pursuit of collecting trees, roots, fruits, and flowers, 

 from foreign countries. His niece married Dr. John Buckner, late Bishop of 

 Chichester; and her sister died unmarried, in the year 1810, at Chichester; a 

 woman greatly^eloved, and particularly famed for her proficiency and taste in 

 music : she was an intimate friend of Hayley the poet. Dr. Andrew Heron, 

 his son, and the last Heron who owned Bargally, was brought up to be a 

 physician, and took his degree as such ; but he was addicted to pleasure, and 

 was too idle to practise : he was deeply involved in law, and soon got deeply 

 involved in debt. His creditors sold Bargally to Mr. Hannay, a brother of 

 Sir Samuel Hannay of Kirkdale, who was not very rich ; and, in consequence, 

 he cut down the greater part of the valuable and ornamental timber, and 

 made the place very different indeed from what it was in 1729, the year of the 

 original proprietor's and planter's death. It is understood that the timber 

 which Mr. Hannay felled very nearly paid the purchase money which he gave 

 for the estate. If the creditors, or their attorneys, had had the decency to 

 give notice of the intended sale to Dr. Heron's relations, who were residing 

 in England, Bargally would now have been the property of a Hei'on. Dr. 

 Andrew Heron died in retirement in the year 1793 : he was never married. 



In 1792 Mr. Hannay sold Bargally to John Mackie, Esq., in whose pos- 

 session it remains. He has had the good feeling and taste to repair old 

 Andrew' Heron's tomb, in which the remains of Andrew and his first wife are 

 deposited, and to protect it with a fence and some trees. 



The old house of Bargally, in which Andrew Heron resided, no longer exists ; 

 a small one has been erected at some distance from where the old house stood. 

 The present house is small, the rooms very low, and the style not at all con- 

 formable to the situation, or what a person of good taste would have planned : 

 it was built by Mr. Hannay. 



There is an excellent garden, possessing great capabilities ; but the oleanders, 

 the citron trees, the pomegranates, and the rare and choice flowers, which were 

 to be seen at Bargally in 1729, are gone. There still remains a large ever- 

 green oak, together with some of the finest beech, ash, firs, hornbeam, and 

 variegated hollies, in the grounds, some of which mark the ancient divisions of 

 the garden, to perpetuate the memory and good taste of the good old original 

 proprietor and planter. — B. R. H. July 17. 1835. 



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Died, on the 13th of September, William Malcolm, Esq., F.L.S. H.S., &c. 

 the eminent nurseryman at Kensington. Mr. Malcolm had been in an indifferent 

 state of health for above a year ; but such was his activity of mind, that he 

 could not resist the desire to make his annual commercial journey. He died 

 at the house of his brother-in-law, the Rev. Dr. Mitchell, minister of Kemnay, 

 Aberdeenshire, and was buried in the family vault in the churchyard there. Mr. 

 Malcolm was in his sixty-seventh year. He was considered, by his brother nur- 

 serymen, as one of the very first men of business in his line ; and, by gardeners, 

 as one of their best friends. In Malcolm's Nursery there was always a better 

 chance than in most others for a young stranger from the country to get em- 

 ployment. The nursery was always kept in the very highest order ; and both 

 the articles in it, and in the seed department, were the best of their kinds. Mr. 

 Malcolm left no son ; but the business, it is believed, will be carried on by his 

 brother Henry. 



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