Miller. 247 
numbers in 1755, and which were com- 
pleted in 300 tables, making two volumes 
in folio, in 1760, were drawn from plants 
of his own garden. His original defign 
was very extenlive ; no lefs than to give 
one, or more fpecies, of all the genera : but 
it was found to be impradicable ^ and it 
was therefore coniSned to fuch as were the 
moft beautiful, ufeful, and uncommon. 
Each number was accompanied v/ith feve- 
ral pages of letter-prefs, containing the 
defcriptions, and an account of the claffes 
to which they belong, according to the lyf- 
tems of Ray, Tournefort, and Lin- 
N^us. As this work is well known, I fhall 
only obferve, that whether we confider the 
rarity of the fubjeils, the fpecioufnefs of 
thofe he feleded for his purpofe, or the ge- 
iieral execution of the whole, England had 
not before produced any work, except the 
Hortus Elthame'djis^ and Catesby's Caro^ 
Una, fo fuperb and extenfive. In one re- 
fpeft. Miller's plates had the advantage 
of the above mentioned, as they exhibited,, 
much more frequently, the feparate figures 
of the parts of fructification, 
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