Marca 29, 1919.] 
THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. _ 
THE 
Gardeners Chronicle 
No. 1683.—SA TURDA Y, MARCH 29, 1919. 
Ё CONTENTS 
Alpine Garden, the... 151 [ Nico rices for... 156 
| Big-Bud Mite, spraying Nurseries in the war 
3 for ok CAS) .. 
Я ++» 156 devastated ат 15 
- Birds in the ga arden ...156|Plums on 1 
Botanists, some little fences .. s.. e.. 149 
nown ... aes . 147 | Potatos . 156 
Dendrobium speciosum ~ Pritzel, ~The revision 
NIS v .. 154 
Rosary; iBe-- 
Fragrant "E 
|. Flora of a single tree... 156 Ros 152 
Food from DARK yards Yellow Roses...  ...151 
m ie arder * The last Rose of 451 
À eee 244, eee Wi ud 
Food problems, lecture ee 
on. 154 i HE ad 
Med ырл чы! Cree Tecde” Wn 
a a jx as Market GRIDER Pr 
Gardeners” * Vietory" Surveyors. instita al 158 
memoria. З 157 
Gladiolus tristis 148 tion Bee winter 154 
Ireland, notes from ... 160 Pp a ‚157 
Lawns, treatment of 2: 148 | ,, moth мер ган E 
London Parks, tenure ТО и off eedling "ys 
Mallett, Мт. че in сова = Me Trade notes 5 
q 54 | Trees and саба 
Mount 1 Elgon, the vege- Abies Forrestii 150 
. ation of the aps Weather, the recent 
and summit of ..150| severe and plant life 156 
ри - eek's gia ee vn 
lace, H. E, ... 160 | Women in horticulture 
ILLUSTRATIONS. - 
Coptis orientalis iis we 151 
Dendrobium fus iforme Sie ee d 
Dendrobium speciosum ni иаа ауда ETT 
: Gladiolus tristis, до of ji: planto ot ave. hase AMD 
Odontioda Cyclop: se eer MS. 
BOTANISTS.* 
N = through Musgrave’s Obituary for the 
of others 
such gardeners and con- 
n with horticulture whose deaths up to 
the end of the 18th cent re recorded, 
ior the i published in ‘ardeners’ 
Chronicle, December 14, 1917, I extended th 
Scope of my notes, and includ tanists, with 
think, some interesting results. In the 17th 
and 18th centuries a botanist of any note was 
nearly always a medical man. In view of the 
very lar which in those days herbs 
Played. in the composit ines, thi 
E WSs 006 а 1 A knowledge of the pro- 
 Perties of herbs was a very impo rtant part of a 
medical man's m, whilst the 
3 majority may have been conten gt ith a utili- 
tarian acquainta with botan = others пес 
into the science е , and beca 
i Á— of it. E in масава 
times it wo a lon 
uld y to make g li 
men who dedi the db of medi- 
Sine for the science pt ауу кы реза 
uous an instance could be m 
жазы as 1 чке Very few жа 
net кра . James Britten MA 
and its thr lements en ring the work up 
to 1902, and of which an entirely new edition 
is much hey have indeed left very 
little for those о come And 1 
GEN 
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2 . 
4 
Ф 
to land bi s, ir joy is 
justified by the тайына netting of a few NR 
кж a ut I think that at least one of the 
e rescued from oblivion is much too 
2 h T. P | n 
5 
EE wg he may be regarde 
Jamaica, and the eue of Hi 
very Mage oe 
Jamaica Atri 
1718. The ‘frst э garden аьаа i in ths 
— was the old Botanic Garden, at Bath, 
n vus ERES E of ihe Heus se of Asse mbly 
of Dr. Thomas Clarke, “ Prac- 
eis 
titionér: in Physic and Surgery,” to superintend 
two Botani sg then intended у ss estab- 
dels One " to Бе a European 
garden, which, ever, was not етая till 
long ates at ‘Cinco, ЖАА the other was the 
Tr opical fen irc Dr. Clarke, accord- 
ing to M шша His nir Jamaica, 1915, on 
his arrival on the WE rought with him the 
Jujube tree Ee oy "the Litchi 
(Euphoria helium Litchi, from China), 
he purple Dr; ah the Palm, and the 
D Camphor tree; so that it is reasonable 
assume th pre not ‘weg т Eng 
lt, Lut from so er colon ps from 
the Indies. "A Taniy fall pote P Dr, 
larke’s activity as a botanist and as 
factor to the 
ntrib 
Civil an s ar ADT i of t 
Vol. III., pp. 367-407. 
issued i th 
e j^ май ndi. 
Ve ge num ics are registered 
there as being introduced "by Dr. Clarke, алй 
of i reo cy Siena 
problem of Dr. Clarke’ 
tiling in Jamaica is not eas [ 
Clarke died in February, Ei and a brie 
obitua notice appeare Ee ‘uropean 
Magai of that year T There 
de Jamaica of whom 
"voti be interesting to have fuller details, 
аа M. 
mboe а 
ot Swart: 
introduced the first plants of the Watercress and - 
т. Las Wallen. ever, а 
S. Britten and 
his 5 death has not been traced), but Dr. Thomas 
Clarke does not.. 
se of the earliest names, in point of date, 
extracted from шие а is that of “ "Sands," 
ibed as of Wadham = ost еве. RS ord. 
ple 
his “ist т ү p 1814, in F Foster’ s Alumn 
Oxonienses, end ter's Oxontensis 
hat he was a bene- 
factor 9t the Physic Garden at. that seat of 
ыйы who йш the twofold 
functions of “medicine on botany. and is un- 
ecorded by Mes: е d. Bowler, was 
Charles йө, an кше. Fellows of the car 
lege of а 3 Professor of Botany a 
147 
Trinity College, Dublin ar 1718; B.A., 
1720; MB 1724;; and № 1727). died 
in Dublia Septembe Эг Л does not appear 
to have made any contribution to botanical litera- 
we. From the Gentleman's a ine we learn 
ary aged 95, E 
r. Moze, *a learned iUe Eo. botanis 
whom I have ‘failed to identify; perhaps the 
na was Mose, and he may 
"augmented ” James Ho 
work EE passed through 
"There z E family o 
men vio. i if war ce e not known as ө а 
were probably di in the knowled 
of the properties of plants. Of them very little 
information a appears to i ae tac Dr. Benja- 
who died п January 8, 1734, was 
Teman ‚ who еї October 27, 1748, discovered 
the virtues of the Rattlesnake Roo (probably 
Polygalb A! Tennant was a ch physi 
cian in Virg The Indians used the root as à 
remedy whe "the sting of the пат узе and 
Tennant considered that it might be wi 
n5nistered in cence. of pleuri зу ап 
кила: Не cated 
Dr. Mead (1673. 3-1754), the fari 
Фу sician and art collector, and ‘dino were pub 
li she d in the form of Е жуы Ed же en- 
was 
gow, . Green (Н 
notes “that his toh К pora 
Ro credit. 
bined pen icine and elt - De J James New 
ton, who died at the age "t 78, on Viens n 5; 
1 private asylum. near the Iling- 
rank 
rth 
ancad in the Gentleman’s Magazine 
Although described as a “celebrat 
oth John Wodrow, a wo dioe medical man, who 
died December 12, 1768 
1768, is not mentioned 
by Mess " and Boulger, nor by 
Dr. Green the son of a minister 
(perhaps Robert Wodrow, - the ecclesiastical 
eer and may ntical with the 
ie the ssme name he translated Ossian's 
дере milton, who died 
авна p» 1782, race Professor of 
Anatomy and Botan ahy y Glasgow. and is men- 
tioned » Green, who, however, s not A 
mesake of his, the Rev. Thom: 
was Prof of Bol at Cambridge and 
Woodwardian Professor ls, and who 
ied on June 7, 1788. h iter 
of his obituary notice in the Gentleman’s Maga- 
zine, <“ deprived of the use side by a 
paralytic stroke, he was shooting in Hun 
n ; and with difficulty 
krou his Coliege, and though he 
к thenes to Bath, ger no relief from its 
zat of реч, and his 
Бана наалдан е him regretted by all 
who knew him.” Another үзе man not 
recorded by Dr. Green Messrs. Britten and 
y 
Boulger, was John 
b h 
ило died J uly 4, 
days a Curator was only a euphemism for care- 
p 
Britten and Boulger mentio 
Richard ‘Kentish, who was Pr 
_ of Naturalists, 
«€ а, 
еге to John Woolshafen, who was born 
en and who died there September ber 20. 
1794. at ihe age of 74. Бе was descri as © 
idola herbalist,” and a as ae son of Mr. Wool- 
— UAE ав & apothecary in that 
. Roberts 
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