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ornamented with busts of Linnaeus and Clusius*, the latter 

 being, by a patriotic partiality, placed on the right hand of 

 the illustrious Swede. On our remarking to the gardener 

 the propriety of adding a bust of Boerhaave, he admitted it ; 

 and this conversation fortunately induced him to conduct us 

 to see some of Boerhaave's plants which were still flourishing 

 in the garden. 



One of these deserving particular notice was what our con- 

 ductor named Lonicera Tatar ica> which, with us, com- 

 monly appears as a shrub four or five feet high, but here 

 forms a small tree. A little way above the ground, the 

 stem measures 2 feet 9 inches in circumference. The trunk 

 bears the evident marks of age, the centre being rottem 

 What is rather curious, we observed young roots striking 

 into the decayed vegetable matter in the centre,— in the 

 bosom of the tree itself. It now bore many ripe berries^ 

 and we were favoured with a few of them-)** 



Another of Boerhaave's plants was a Flowering ash 

 (Fraxinus Onius)^ on a common ash stock, and which, it 

 is reported, was grafted by the Professor himself As it is 

 now a very remarkable tree, we may be excused for en- 

 larging a little regarding it. The grafting had been made 

 somewhat more than a foot above the 1 ground. If the stock 

 and the graft were nearly adapted to each other originally, 



• The inscription in honour of this distinguished botanist is amusing 

 enough i 



u Non potuit plures hk qua;rere Clusius herbas, 

 Ergo novas campis qua:rit in Elysiis." 

 But it has a parallel in a compliment paid by the author of the Gramina Bri* 

 tannira to the herborizing zeal of the late Mr Sole of Bath : u If our spirits 

 after their escape from this prison of clay, continue any attachments to what 

 I them on earth," — surely, concludes the amiable author, rapt in bo- 

 tanical farVOOr, — Sole is now " simpling in celestial fields !" 



-f The mulling! which have sprung from these induce us to regard the 

 plant I I.. "////"< no, Lilt 



