824 HE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
ste etn of it to be necessary. You must see it yourself if sb 
ould form any idea of its size or its pAigsaciblenes range. An 
pair. Brompton Chace ns, or the late Curtis’s gear e are now 
managed by Mr. Salisbury. They lie about two miles out of town, 
and are very pretty and well cared-for. There are different parts 
where grapes, poisonous and useful plants, English and foreign 
plants, English shrubs and trees, &c., are grown. The forcing 
ouse is nice, though not large. In the gardens is a charming 
botanical library which is very useful to any one visiting them. 
A subscription to these gardens is of the greatest use to London 
lovers of botany. You pay a guinea a year, or by paying two you 
get the seedlings grown in the garden 
: In Edinburgh I saw their botanical gardens, which are very pretty 
and contain many fine plants; Dr. Rutherford, a distinguished man, 
is Professor of Botany there. I also made acquaintance W with a 
gardener, Mr. Mackay, who has a very good knowledge of the 
Scotch re oe. from him I got some fine plan 
. 25 of rews’ Botanists’ Repository has been issued; 
other plants se in itis Persoonia lanceolata. No. 96 of So ache 8 
colour of earth, which have white edges on which the names of the 
fungi are painted. It is convenient to treat the collection like this, 
as they do not lend themselves well to shah 
mith’s Flora Britannica is printed to p. 676 tis genus Dr aba 
will appear in the next issue. The work will run to @ pr’ many 
parts. Of Banks’s library I should observe that the huge collection 
of minor botanical works in which it is so remarkably rich, originate 
with Gronovius, whose heirs sold it to Banks for about 800 gulden ; : 
to this further additions have been made. 
9 Jan. 1800. 
You will have learnt from our friend Herr Stromeyer that 
I spent the greater part of November last at Eton with my brother. 
company with Messrs. Gotobed and Jenkins and my brother, I 
cryptog Among many m e found Hypnum Sherardie 
(Dickson), “Br yum fr ite (Dickson), Sediwaks (Dickson) and verenss 
as well as many fungi and lichens, among the latter of which one, 
pia tine to Dickson, is new. At the same time I vis sited oe 
Goodenough at Windsor. He received me very kindly, but ee 
not show me his collection owing to an engageme ent, and I ha 
* [For the history of this collection, now exhibited in the botanical aaa 
of the Natural History Museum, see Journ. Bot. 1888, pp. 231, 268-] 
