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the flowers having been all prepared by him, and they are in the herbarium 
very neatly mounted. The Messrs. Shepherd are justly known everywhere for 
their successful cultivation of foreign Ferns, a very high testimony of esteem 
having been paid them by Sir W. J. Hooker in his splendid work, leones Filicum , 
and the collection made by the late Mr. Shepherd, will, I am sure, interest every 
botanist. 
There is an interesting collection of plants from Jamaica, made by W. M. 
Wright, M.D., F.R.S., who “spent the best of his days in the West Indies, 
partly in his Majesty’s service, and partly in private practice. He appropriated 
every spare moment from the duties of his profession to Botany. His chief aim 
was to ascertain the properties of plants, whether useful in Medicine, in com¬ 
merce, the arts or rural economy.”* Amongst the collection, which is bound up 
in a volume, are specimens of the following plants :—Indian Arrow-root ( Maranta 
arundinacea ), Black Pepper of Jamaica ( Piper Amalago, Piper inequale), 
Lace-bark-tree ( Daphne lagetta ), Cinnamon-tree ( Lanrus camphor a and L 
cinnamomum ), Lignum Vitae ( Guaiacum officinale ), several of the Sidas, or 
Mallows, of Jamaica, which appear to yield excellent hemp; specimens of it 
accompanying each plant; Nankeen Cotton (Gossypiumfuscum), Peruvian or 
Jesuits’-bark of Jamaica ( Cinchona Carihcea , L. Sp. PI. , C. Jamacensis, PL 
Tr ., v. 67), Sweet Cassada ( Jatropha Janipha ), Cascarilla-bark-tree, Gum- 
Arabic-tree, &c. &c., all of the specimens being accompanied with highly 
interesting remarks on their properties and uses. 
In concluding my notice of the Garden, I must not omit mentioning the library, 
which is well supplied with botanical works ; it contains,— English Botany, Lod- 
dige and Son’s Botanical Cabinet , Curtis’s Botanical Magazine , Andrews’s 
Botanist’s Repository, and his Monographs of the genera Rosa, Erica, and 
Geranium, Edwards’s Botanical Register, Gartner Be Fructibus et Se?ninibus 
Plantarum, leones Filicum , by Sir W. J. Hooker and Dr. Greville, Masson’s 
(Francis) Stapelice Novce , or Figures of several new species of that genus found 
in the Interior of Africa, Flora Banica, Roscoe’s Monandrian Plants of the order 
Scitaminece, Plantce Asiaticce Rariores, by N. Wallich, leones Plantarum 
Rariorum, by N. I. Jacquin, Plantce Selectee, &c. &c., by G. D. Ehret, Iconum 
* The above collection of plants is preceded by a few remarks which may prove interesting, as 
showing the high opinion their author entertained of the study of Botany :—“ Botany is a study 
of such general importance to mankind, that no line can be drawn to bound its utility. In a 
commercial country like Britain, the advantages will appear great when we consider that her 
colonies and settlements are distributed throughout every climate of the world, as by this useful 
art the produce of foreign kingdoms may be transferred to our own dominions, whose climate and 
soil is best adapted for their growth. The botanist exercises his mind in the noblest because the 
most useful of all pursuits. His daily discoveries add to the stock of human knowledge, and his 
name is transmitted to future ages.” 
