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eminence, but rarely if ever before equalled^ 
in the chara6ter of a gardener. It is not 
uncommon to give the term of Botanift, 
to any man that can recite by memory, the 
plants of his garden. Mr. Miller rofe 
much above this attainment. He added 
to the knowledge of the theory and pradice 
of gardening, that of the ftru£lure and cha- 
rafters of plants, and was early and prafti- 
eally verfed in the methods of Ray and 
TouRNEFQRT. Habituated to the ufe of 
thefe, from his younger years, it was^ not 
without reludtance that he was brought to 
adopt the fyftem ofLiNN^us; but he was 
convinced, at length, by the arguments of 
the late Sir WillUm Watson and Mr. 
Hudson, and embraced It. To his fuperior 
Ikill in his art, the curious owe the culture 
and prefer vation of a variety of fine plants, 
which, in lefs Ikilful hands, would have 
failed, at that time, to adorn the conferva- 
tories of England » 
His objefts were not confined to exotics i 
few were better acquainted with the indi- 
genous plants, of which, he fucceffively cul- 
tivated moft of the rare (pcies. 
2 He 
