xlviii Sir William Jackson Hooker . 
Meanwhile unobtrusive but powerful influence was being 
exerted in favour of Dr. Lindley’s recommendations by John, 
sixth Duke of Bedford, a nobleman distinguished for his 
devotion to botany, horticulture, and agriculture, who delighted 
in having the plants in his gardens at Woburn Abbey scienti- 
fically classified and named, as objects for his own gratification 
and study, and as materials for the production of botanical 
works of high scientific value, which he had printed and 
distributed at his own cost 1 . 
a notice of his life and labours see vol. ii, p. 429 of these * Annals/ where it is 
stated that the. characters of twenty new genera of ferns published in Hooker and 
Bauer’s Genera of Ferns, are by him. But except Ochropteris , only sub-genera or 
sections of genera of ferns are there referred to. 
1 The services rendered to botany, horticulture, and agriculture by the sixth 
Duke of Bedford have been veiled through the suppression of his own personality 
in all he undertook for the encouragement of science and art. They were known 
well to few besides my father, whose botanical reputation the Duke recognized 
as early as 1817, and with whom he corresponded actively during his later years. 
Besides contributing liberally to the botanical missions of Schomburgk in Guiana, 
Purdie in New Grenada, Gardner in Brazil, Drummond in Florida and Texas, 
Tweedie in Argentina, Lippold in Madeira, and Cuming in Luzon, he established 
at Woburn a Hortus gramineus, an Ericetum , a Salictum , and a Pinetum , all on 
a scientific basis ; and during his last illness he was forming a collection of Cacti, 
of which he had 450 species, and was contemplating an Arboretum. The following 
works were due to his munificence : — Hortus Gramineus Woburnianus, a folio 
volume of specimens, with an account of the results and experiments on the 
produce and nutritive qualities of different grasses and other plants used for the 
foods of the more valuable domestic animals ; instituted by John Duke of Bedford, 
pointing out the kinds most profitable for permanent pasture, irrigated meadows, 
dry and upland pasture and alternate husbandry, with characters of the species and 
varieties, by G. Sinclair, gardener to his Grace.’ Ed. i appeared in 1816; ii in 
1825 ; iii in 1838. 
Hortus Ericeus Woburnensis, a catalogue of 400 heaths, with four coloured 
plates, four of views, houses, and plans, and two of schemes of colour by Sir G. 
Hay ter. 
Salictum Woburnense, a catalogue of the willows in the Woburn collection, 
with coloured plates and descriptions by James Forbes, gardener to his Grace, 
roy. 8vo, 1829 (160 species and varieties are included). 
Hortus Woburnensis, a descriptive catalogue of upwards of 6,000 plants culti- 
vated at Woburn Abbey, with a view of the Abbey, twenty-six plates of plans of 
houses and beds, and brief descriptions of the species, by James Forbes, 1833. 
Journal of a Horticultural Tour on the Continent, taken under orders of the 
Duke, in Hamburgh, Germany, Belgium, Bavaria, and France, by James Forbes, 
8vo, 1837. It resulted in the acquisition of 600 new species to the Woburn garden. 
Pinetum Woburnense, a catalogue of Coniferous plants in the Woburn collection, 
