GARDENS OF CELEBRITIES 
scientific sense as pertaining to Nature and natural objects, and 
that the first object of the apothecaries in founding the garden 
was the study of botany in its relation to medicine, and not the 
cultivation of the actual plants to be converted into drugs for the 
pharmacopceia, yet, from an ignorant outsider’s point of view, it 
seems a pity that the spot that for nearly 230 years was honourably 
—though not exclusively—associated with one important branch 
of the study of medicine, should now ignore that branch altogether, 
instead of leading the van in the useful movement for its revival. 
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