Apri 2, 1887.] 
then extant. Sherard accumulated wealth in London 
by practising as an apothecary, and siio od 
retired to his country seat, where he devoted the 
greater part of his time to the cultivation t plants 
obtained from all parts of the world, though the bulk 
of the extra-European species were from America 
and South Africa. What in those days was termed 
the dry stove presented the — novelty, for the 
o have P 
y other c 
HRK e, оне онад Cotyledon, бела. 
vured а 
lavis to the species is given, 
founded crim SE afforded by the leaves. 
E Purre MILLER. 
P Before introducing the founder of the Botanical 
E Magazine himself I should like to add a few words 
Fig, 86,—roBacco; DRYING HOUSE. 
respecting that Pea" à ges: enr den 
"Hortulanorum Prince of his day 
publications, for they с енені mark an epoch a 
à his istory o oe Miller was jen in 1691, and 
z only man whom eet knew who 
ү had d the botan y. 1722 he was 
Appointed ers of the Chelsea aed ie Garden, 
h 
years, and died in 1771, the year after h 
ment. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and 
enjoyed the fr iendship of some of the leading botanists 
АУ was purely & botanist; but I find the [ише € 
th ’ ce in Pulteney's "Sketches (i., p. 197 
he variety of notes in this c talogue env — ‘Plena 
trea Cantabrigü Cantab., 1660. 
&E 
Р 
ntur, Nada har ab 
vel hortum i n urbe situm," (Ор. EC Y: 97.) 
THE GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE. 451 
of the day, though detractors of his merits were not 
wanting. His work, however, has rendered his name 
. Among his pupils were W. Aiton, author 
of the first АП of the Hortus Kewensis; W. Forsyth, 
his successor at Chelsea, and oec gardener to 
the King at Kensington; and h ei; rles was 
the first Curator of the Cambridge "Botas c Garden. 
Of his literary works, his Gardeners Dirtionar у 
ns- 
Germ Linn:eus 
n erit Lexicon Hotelini, 
sed etiam E The first edition was 
published in 1736 in one folio volume ; and this was 
followed by seven other editions in various forms 
during the author's lifetime. A ninth edition ts 
two very а "e icm was edited by Thom 
резе п, ; while George Don's Pier 
em Hi у dni (1831—37) was founded on the 
a work 
published two folio volumes of coloured figures 
the most beautiful and useful plants. 
This high-class and sumptuous work was issued 
(ѕЕЕ Р. 452.) 
n parts, and according to pe аа зин plan 
was to include RR = one or more species of 
all the known genera of p гыга from = 
beginning of its pu km lor found it n 
sary, on account of the great expense apod ni ja 
production, to limit it to a much narrower compass, 
300 es was the iid it reache d. This is 
of Plants Mes mostly drav 
engraved by J. (in some el. John) Miller, J. 8. 
Miller qoem the same person) f, and T. Jeffreys. 
* Figures of the жон аганын, уй and Uncommon 
Plant:, described їп the Dictionary,” to which are 
added their descriptions. Yu 1760. 
f Doubtless the same John nni or Johann Sebastian 
ry (a German who was born at Nurnberg in 1715, and died 
n London, си е mre mm ii = strat ted e exposition of 
the Linnean e. He accom 
i i e Kew Library of a pro 
m a a ыы plates алтун of plants and insec 
Miller may have borrowed this idea from Ehret’s Plante e 
Papiliones Rarior pict ch t men plates equal 
if they do not excel. At the time of his death, Miller had just 
blished the first part of his cones Plantarum, a folio of 
J. Miller "E drew & considerable number of the 
few were drawn 
e “dry Vg ien ’ chiefly n 
and very fe ү garde n v slots of such жеры 
Rosa, Жалый, and Hyacinthus, W, B. А 
SCOTLAND. 
RHODODENDRON CAMPBELLIÆ. 
Tus Бет M vi Sikkim E na M is 
nt prese dien nurseries of the Laws 
Nursery pine uem ee olm, Edinbugh. Tt is is 
obviously closely ани to R. arboreum, yet distinct in 
e 
h hat covers 
their undersides. Dr. (now Sir Joseph) Hooker says 
of it:—‘“ This may be called a tree, attaining as it 
does not unfrequently the height of 40 feet; detected 
exhibits a truly magnificent spectacle, gorgeous with 
scarlet heads g bloss oms.” Ju dging from the 
brilliancy of th i t Bangholm, 
Sir Joseph Hooker did not overpraise this beautiful 
specie es. Tt nee Bt ne рен о А found аё а lower 
ranging € at о 8000 fee et. Has it ever been 
tried inthe open air in this country? The great 
elevation at which it is ү would lead to the ex- 
peetation that it were hardy in most parts of Britain. 
W. S. 
Tue Огр Oak Tree AT ABERDEEN. 
A large staff of men = lately been engaged 
eart the bot 
course of dredging operatio 
as it had undoubtedly а. carried domi ê river 
m 
of 1829, it had been sct 
Inches by a ا‎ of Aberdeen 
flood 
h he inhabitants of 
spate of 1829.” "Notwithstanding the length of 
it had pon онд it is still fairly 
fresh. The. dimension ч the tree, or rather trunk, 
mm feet in фа ing eain and 
it veg about 10 
viti only seven appeared. There i is > ag Let both 
meer ‘and letter an ub of these plates at 
en Field's Memoirs of the Botanic өрү” «0 ^ Chelsea it is 
ed (p. 62) that Philip Mi а married the ret, 
чат І түтө found no —À — this ам. and sus- 
pn = use Sir J. E. Smith, in a 
матбу menge of Miller (ees > Cyelpadlia), specially men- 
ve sister, though he is silent 
as to who Miller’s êla 
Since the утте note was put in type I have seen (Pree 
Linn. / nd., Oct., 1886, p. 43) the genealogy of vere Grover 
ich it appears t oo 
Kennett, of Glidding, hen osi 
ussex." This is doubtless all correct except Sussex, uu 
is a mistake for Surrey. 
f In Rees’ Cyclopedia, wh re there is m horticultural 
and botanical information by the same write 
. 
