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MONUMENT TO MR. DOUGLAS. 
Scone, in Perthshire, and have appointed a committee of their number 
to carry the same into effect, by soliciting the aid of those who may 
approve of the undertaking. The committee have limited the sum to 
be subscribed by practical gardeners to from one to five shillings; any 
sum from amateurs, however small, will be thankfully acknowledged. 
The design of the monument will be regulated by the amount of subscrip¬ 
tions and approval of contributors. Every contributor to the amount 
of one shilling shall be entitled to a printed list of subscribers’ names, 
to which a lithographic design of the monument and inscription shall 
be attached. Archibald Turnbull, Esq., Bell wood, Perth, has kindly 
accepted the office of treasurer; and a subscription-paper will lie at his 
seed-shop, Perth. Subscription-papers shall also be sent to the cura¬ 
tors of the botanic gardens at Edinburgh and Glasgow, and to nursery 
and seedsmen in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling, and Dundee.— Nov. 23, 
1835.” 
Mr. Loudon has most honourably and earnestly taken up this affair; 
and has had the day on which the subscription was to close , put off to an 
indefinite period, in order to give the friends of Mr. Douglas, and the 
admirers of botany in distant parts, ie the melancholy satisfaction of 
testifying their sense of the eminent services rendered to botany and 
gardening by Mr. D.,” by enrolling their names as subscribers to his 
monument. 
Since the project has been entertained, the ideas of those most 
friendly to it have been greatly extended. The first idea, perhaps, was 
only that of erecting a piece of ornamental masonry, bearing an appro¬ 
priate inscription, on some well-frequented spot in the deceased’s native 
parish ; but it has been asked, u Why not purchase as much ground 
around the monument as will contain all the plants discovered and 
introduced by Mr. Douglas ? ” This would be very appropriate in a 
public botanic garden, more especially in the one with which he was 
so intimately connected; but we do not see how this could be so well 
done in a rural parish, where funds would be required not only to buy, 
(or lease,) and fence, and plant the ground, but to defray the annual 
expense of keeping it up. But again—this difficulty is got rid of by 
another question, “ Why not purchase as much ground as may suffice 
for a small market-garden, or nursery, and present it to the family of 
Mr. Douglas and his heirs for ever ? ” 
Mr. Loudon is delighted with this suggestion, and envies his friend 
who has the honour of suggesting it. Mr. L. considers it the highest 
compliment that can be paid to the memory of a man by his country ; 
compares it with the magnificent gift of Blenheim to the Duke of 
Marlborough in the reign of Queen Anne ; and believes that if time be 
