SUPPLEMENT TO THE. GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
(Serr. 18, 1875, 
fessors of botanical science and of paea 
horticulture. The large majority of br mos sts 
past and present, have been, or are doc 
Look at the records of those who have advanced 
botany, horticulture, , forestry ,and rural econom 
E 
generally, at hor India, and the Colonies 
and see how very large a proportion of them 
have been doctors—ay, an at is more, 
dinburgh doctors. We е no space to 
P 
pose is to lay before the reader a few notes on 
the Royal Botanic Garden, one of the many fine 
features of Edinburgh. We make no pane 
to treat the matter exhaustively—time and spac 
—but we shall string together a few бы 
which we hope may serve as a guide to others. 
land), in 1582, Sir Robert goes on to say that 
the faculty of medicine had its beginning in 
685 
of the most башайы н 
in Scotland—Si rew Balfour, Sir Robert 
Sibbald (Sibbaldia it labes and Dr. Pit- 
cairn (Pitcair 
* Botany (he gor seems to have been their first 
j e 5 e Sibba 
о toe Fii уеа rlier, Balfour and ld 
€ the rudiments of a botanic garden, one object 
ssly wa intro into Scotland the 
ich expre s to duce 
cultivation of foreign Phó ет medicinal products, 
о 
3 had 70, in 
a little га “of gro Lass = in ie Holy: rood Palace, measur- 
ing forty feet square, in which, nevertheless, were reared 
no fewer than goo plants. The site was soon transferred 
Town Council for 56] will show ‘that the 
* Incurradgement” to at coe as Measured 
by pounds sterling, was not gr 
e day Councill ове the us 
‘The sa 
and мае of Incurradgement of the art X н 
missing in the text] and vet ting of medeki 
and that it were fitt for the better fooristin s 
Collbdges that the said profess = the 
the other professions which чти ” public We 
therein, and in regaird that it is "4 aet 
be severalls of the nobilitie, gentry, and dies 
tians and chirurgeons that the : Physi- 
upon nnexes 
Poras the ed profession to the rest ‘of the =; and 
ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN is indeed | 
an establishment of which 
President of the British Medical Asso- 
“ faculties)’ if we may so call them, of physi 
of gardening in its scientific, progressive 
aspect is afford e revered President 
a 
himself, one not only known as a pde but 
as a physiologist, a botanist, and arboricul- | 
turist. After telling of the Оа ot the 
University by James I. (the sixth of Scot- 
VIEW IN THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN. 
to a large garden, where id flourishes the city stati 
of the North nine Railw Dust and iron, h Pug 
s ^ 
groves a venues, the perfumed air and the scientific 
seclusion of the *Old Physic Garden.' one reli 
survives in a fine Yew now adorning the gar in charge 
of Dr. Balfour and Mr. McNab, twicé transplanted 
successfully after becoming considera ree, and 
rovi т age by the modulus of De Candolle, 
undation bec 
ау а К Uhiversity Profesor 3 in 1695. 
The following extract from the records of the | 
Mtis taught in the said Colledge And recome 
the TA т. of the Colledge to provyd a der 
om in the Colledge for keeping books 
relating to. @ the said profession, whereanent thir 
and." 
Sut dii published in 1683 a catalogue dí 
e pla ants grown in the m under his char, 
o less tha? 
pris 
Alston, who next assumed the 
Dr. ; 
ship. He filled the office for twenty-two ye" 
