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The Very Rev. Holt Waring, born T766 and died 1850, 

 who was Rector of Shankill or Lurgan, and Dean of Dromore, 

 had a most delightful garden at his residence, AVaringstown 

 House, close to the village of the same name in Co. Down. 

 There was in it a choice collection of rare trees and shrubs, and 

 hardy foreign as well as native plants, and there was also a fine 

 rock-garden in one part of it with a large collection of hardy ferns, 

 and a pond for choice aquatics. A peculiarity of the whole was 

 that every plant had a legible label with the proper scientific 

 name. I saw it sixty-five years ago when it was in perfection, it 

 was my first introduction to a good collection of ferns, and till 

 quite recently I never saw a better. This garden flourished till 

 the end of the last century. 



There was a family named Hancock long resident in Lisburn, 

 one of whom, Dr. Thomas Hancock, born in that town in 1783, 

 was a botanist and skilful physician, who eventually settled in 

 London. 



George Dickie, born in Aberdeen in 181 2, became Professor 

 of Natural History at Belfast in 1849. He returned to his native 

 city in i860 as Professor of Botany in Aberdeen University, and 

 in 1864 he published his well-known and useful little "Flora of 

 Ulster,"' where his botanical field work in the North of Ireland is 

 fully recorded. A short biography of him appears in the " Flora 

 of the North-East of Ireland." 



Rev. William Hind, a member of a well-known Belfast 

 family, born in Belfast 1815, died in Suffolk 1894, was curate of 

 Derriaghy, Co. Antrim, in 1839. His collection of British 

 Plants is in the Herbarium of Trinity College, Dublin. 



Professor Ralph Tate, F.L.S., born at Alnwick, North- 

 umberland, and died in 1901 at Adelaide, South Australia, author 

 of "Flora Belfastiensis,'' published in 1863, which gives the 

 results of his investigations of the plants in Down and Antrim 

 within a radius of fifteen miles from Belfast. He taught for many 

 years natural science classes which the Government established in 



