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tor.  Apartments  in  the  greenhouse  were  provided  for  the  gardener 
almost  from  the  first.  In  1761,  however,  Philip  Miller  made  the 
request  that  he  should  be  provided  with  a  dwelling  in  the  garden, 
so  that  the  rooms  in  the  greenhouse  were  evidently  no  longer  hab- 
itable, and  it  is  not  until  the  appointment  of  William  Forsyth  as 
gardener  in  1770  that  we  hear  of  "  lodging-rooms  in  the  green- 
house "  being  provided  once  more.  John  Fairbairn,  on  his  election 
to  the  office  of  gardener,  in  1784,  was  directed  "  to  make  the  apart- 
ments over  the  greenhouse  his  residence,"  and  his  successor,  Wil- 
liam Anderson,  was  granted  "  the  usual  apartments  for  his  residence." 
The  construction  of  a  sewer  in  1853  rendered  the  building  unsafe, 
and  a  new  house  for  the  curator  was  erected  on  the  site  of  "  the  old 
lecture-room." 1  This  new  building  remained  until  the  surrender  of 
the  garden  by  the  Society  of  Apothecaries. 
It  will  not  be  without  interest  at  this  point  to  refer  briefly  to  the 
barges  and  barge-house1  which  figured^  pYominently  in  the  early  his- 
tory of  the  garden,  although  the  matter  is  of  no  botanical  interest. 
Three  barges  were  successively  owned  by  the  Society.  The  first 
was  built  in  1675,  the  second  in  1727  and  the  third  in  1764.  This 
last  was  sold  in  18 17.  Between  17 17  and  1727  the  apothecaries 
were  without  a  barge,  and  they  accordingly  "  entered  into  treaty 
with  the  Stationers'  Company  for  their  barge-house  at  Chelsea."  2 
In  18 1 8  the  barge-house  44  was  let  on  lease  to  Mr.  Lyall,  of  the  Swan 
Brew-house,  for  twenty-one  years,"  and  after  his  tenancy  no  more  is 
heard  of  it. 
The  steps  taken  to  form  a  library  and  herbarium  in  connection 
with  the  garden  may  also  be  conveniently  considered  here.  The 
first  indication  of  the  Society's  intention  to  form  a  library  for  the 
1  This  formed  part  of  the  same  building  as  the  old  greenhouse  and  residence 
of  the  curator,  the  whole  constituting  the  "Green  House"  erected  in  1732-4, 
and  indicated  in  Plate  XXV  by  figure  "  1."  The  building  is  also  seen  in  the 
distance  through  the  gateway  in  Plate  XXIII. 
2  The  references  to  this  barge-house  in  Henry  Field's  "  Memoirs  "  and  in  Mr. 
Barrett's  work  are  very  confusing.  It  is  certain,  however,  that  more  than  one 
barge-house  was  owned  by  the  Society,  inasmuch  as  two  barge-houses,  in  addi- 
tion to  the  one  which  the  Society  itself  occupied,  are  mentioned  in  the  Society's 
records,  and  details  are  given  in  latter  of  various  agreements  relating  to  the 
tenancy  of  the  houses  by  the  Tallowchandlers',  Weavers',  Coopers',  Vintners' 
and  Goldsmiths'  companies.  The  existence  of  these  three  barge-houses  is 
further  confirmed  by  the  old  print  reproduced  on  Plate  XXV. 
