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road, the ftranger perceives a door, fituate 
nearly in the middle of the plantation; 
and, on ringing a bell, will be immediately 
admitted. A broad walk, extending 
acrofs the garden, prefents a parterre, on 
each fide, in which all the different va- 
rieties and beautiful hues of Flora are 
exhibited, in regular gradation, accord- 
ing to the feafon: 
s¢ Along thefe blufhing borders, bright with 
hue, 
Fair-handed Spting unbofoms ev'ry grace.” 
No 1. Contains all thofe plants that are 
confidered ufeful in agriculture. Per- 
fons {killed in this art, have an opportu- 
nity of feeing, diftinctly arranged, with 
their proper names of f{pecies, every tree, 
gra{s, and thrub, that is cultivated as food 
for man, the horfe, cow, and all other 
fubordinate animals.—This is a moft im- 
portant branch of natural economy. 
©. 2, is the medicinal quarter, in 
which the ftudent will find the plants of 
the London and Edinburgh Difpenfato- 
vies 3; and whether he himfelf is deftined 
to prefcribe, or to make up the pre- 
{criptions of others, will here have an 
opportunity of becoming acquainted with 
the characters of thofe herbs which form a 
part of the Materia Medica.* 
Among the curious ones will be found 
the Afafatida; while the peifonous tribe, 
only thirteen of which will thrive in the 
open air in this country, axe arranged fo 
as to be hereafter detected by fimple in- 
fpe€tion alone. 
3. The Foreign Grafs quarter, contains 
the Lygeum, Spartum, the Melica Ciliata, 
the Triticum zitivum, the Juncus ni- 
veus, &c. &c. : 
4. The Britith Grafs quarter. Here 
the agriculturift will, at one view, behold 
and diftinguith thofe gramina which con- 
ftitute the real wealth and fertility of a 
country. Thefe include every {pecies 
ferying food for the horfe, the cow, the 
afs, the fheep, and the goat. 
In this interefting collection is to be 
found the Meadow Fox-tail, the Alopecu- 
yus Pratenfis of Linnzeus, which is the 
moft fattening of this tribe, and alfo the 
Anthoxanthum Odoratum, or the {weet- 
* Who ought, as Dr. Gregory has fo em- 
phatically advifed, to make himfelf tho- 
roughly acquainted with thefe plants. 
+ The Aconitum Napellus, Actza fpicata, 
Cicuta Virofa, &c. 
t A clafs of plants with which a// ranks 
of fectety ought to be acquainted 5 for **‘ On the 
gay thou eateft thereof, thou fhalt furely 
dic,”’ 
Of Botany, and the Brompton Botanic Garden. 
455 
{cented vernal meadow grafs, that confers 
a fine aromatic flaveur on our hay, toge- 
ther with a-compleat colle&tion of ali the 
other Britifh fpecies of gramina may be 
feen in great perfeétion, in this quarter. 
No. 5. Contains the Britifs plants of 
large growth. 
No. 6. The Britith wood. 
No. 7. Is dedicated to Britifh rock 
plants, and aquatics. 
No. 8. The Hot houfe, and Green. 
houfe. Here I found the Dionza Mufei- 
pula, a fine {pecimen of which was lately 
prefented to the Prefident of the Linnean 
Society, for the purpofe of elucidating his 
lectures at the Royal Inftitute. I alfo 
faw the Strelitxta Regine, fo called out of 
compliment to the Queen ; the Portlandia, 
the Plumeria, the Vanilla, the Catefbea. 
Spinofa, the Ipomax bona nox, the Ama 
ryllis reticulata, together with the Crinum 
erubef{cens, all in fine bloom. 
In the Green-houfe is to be met with 
the dauble Camella Japonica, the Phormiurz 
tenax, with a very excellent collection of 
plants from the Cape of Goed Hope and 
New Holland. 
No. 9, the Library. This is an oblong 
building, with a lattice work towards the 
fouth, through which it is intended that 
the ornithologift thould be recreated with 
the view of Britith birds, and enabled 
to ftudy their habits and manners while 
alive. 
Tables are placed for either reading or 
taking notes; and the books are arranged 
on fhelves. 
The colleétion confifts of ufeful works, 
either on, or immediately conneéted with, 
the f{cience of botany, fuch 2s Curtis’s 
Flora Londinenfis, and all the ether pro- 
duétions of this celebrated naturalift; the ° 
Flora Auffriaca, Danica, Britannica, Gc. 
Linneus’s Genera & Species Plantarum, 
Syftema Nature Opera Clujii; Matthioli ia 
Diofcoridem; the Hortus Eyftettenfis; toge- 
ther with the Englifh Herbals of Gerrard, 
Parkinfon, Johnfon, &c. in all about 500 
volumes, including the mof celebrated 
agricultural works of Young, Marfhall, 
Dickfon, &c. &c. 
No. 10, a Green-houfe, entirely dedi- 
cated to Heaths, chiefly from the coatt of 
Africa, of which there are 1:50 different 
{pecies. 
No. 11, is appropriated to bulbs and 
flower-roots. 
No. 12. Foreign annual plants. 
No. 13. This quarter contains upwards 
of 1000 different {pecies of foreign hardy 
herbaceous plants. 
No, 14. Foreign Alpine plants, 
Mes Fels vise 
