Monument in Memory of the Botanist Douglas. 293 



of London, have been extensively distributed, not only in Britain, 

 but over Europe, and those parts of North America where they 

 are not indigenous. To him we are indebted, not only for many 

 valuable timber trees, some beautiful ribeses, and other orna- 

 mental shrubs, but for the elegant clarkia, the different species 

 of pentstemons, lupines, Oenotheras, and a host of other orna- 

 mental ligneous and herbaceous plants, which now adorn our 

 gardens ; and which have formed, and still form, the great 

 attraction of the several botanical publications wherein they have 

 been figured and described. In short, if we only imagine the 

 British gardens deprived of the plants introduced by Douglas, 

 we shall find them but very little farther advanced, in point of 

 ornamental productions, than they were a century ago. One 

 great advantage of the introductions of Douglas, independently 

 of their beauty, is, that they are, with but one or two excep- 

 tions, not only able to stand without protection, but very hardy ; 

 and, consequently, from ripening seeds in abundance, they are 

 calculated for ornamenting the garden of the cottager equally 

 with that of the prince, in Britain, and the central districts of 

 Europe."] 



II. ENGRAVING AND DESCRIPTION OF THE MONUMENT, 

 WITH A COPY OF THE INSCRIPTIONS. 



The lithograph (to a copy of which each subscriber of Is. 

 is entitled) is about 10 in. high, by 7^ in. broad, within the 

 boundary lines, and is very superiorly executed in the line 

 manner. The monument, of course, occupies the centre of the 

 picture, and is exactly of the same height and breadth us Jig. 31., 

 which gives as accurate an idea of it as the lithograph. 



The erection is in all 23 ft. high, placed on a rising ground to 

 the north-east of the church, and nearly in the centre of the 

 open ground between the east boundary wall and east end of 

 the church, which, though built within the present century, is a 

 plain Gothic building, without any of that superfluous gewgawry 

 which disfigures many of our newly built places of worship. The 

 simplicity of the style of building of the church, and the hum- 

 ble and monotonous appearance of the surrounding gravestones, 

 lend a peculiar attraction to the monument, the summit of which, 

 from the elevated nature of the ground on which it stands, 

 rises about 3 ft. above the level of the roof of the church, 

 and forms a striking object from the public road leading from 

 Perth to Coupar Angus, which passes through the village of 

 New Scone, and about 200 yards to the south of the church- 

 yard, which is situated at the west end of that beautiful village. 



The monument is built of the famous Kingoodie stone, a 

 species of bluish grey sandstone, taking a fine polish, and which 

 has been long known to be of great durability. The whole of 



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