RICHARD WARNER (17II-1775). 215 
discoveries materially enriched the herbarium and the “ Species 
Plantarum” of Linneus, and, having obtained the order of 
Wasa and published more than eighty opuscula, in Swedish or 
Latin, mainly relating to the agriculture, commerce, manufac- 
tures and natural products of Sweden, he died in 1779. The 
fullest account of his life is that given in Hoefer’s Nouvelle 
Biographie Générale. 
In 1748 the garden at “ Harts”’ gave a new and beautiful 
plant to the lovers of flowers, that known as the Cape Jasmine 
(Gardenia florida). 
Some: coloured but faded sketches by Anne Clarke, now at 
Idsworth, show: the garden as. it was in Warner’s time, and, 
though the maze and inscriptions are gone, the ruins of the 
“abbey,” the memorial stone to his mother, a fine old Weeping 
Willow, and other trees and shrubs dating from his time, still 
exist. The row of elms was enclosed by the Rev. Sir Samuel 
Clarke Jervoise, but little of it now remains ;. whilst the existing 
house was built by Mellish. 
Having, in the many-sidedness of his culture, an educated 
taste for our Elizabethan literature, and especially for that 
relating to the drama, Warner, we are informed by Nichols 
(p. 75), had, in 1768, “‘ been long making collections for a new 
edition of Shakespeare; but on Mr. Steevens’ advertisement™ 
“of his design to engage in the same task on a different plan, 
““he desisted from the pursuit of his own.” In that year (1768) 
he published “A Letter to David Garrick, esq., concerning a 
“Glossary to the Plays of Shakspeare on a more extensive 
“Plan than has hitherto appeared. To which is annexed a 
“Specimen. By Richard Warner, esq.” This letter occupies 
Q2 pages octavo, besides the title page and seventeen pages of 
the Glossary. It was “ printed for the Author : and sold by 
“«T. Davies in Covent Garden.” It is dated ‘‘ Woodford-Row, 
“Essex, Janry Ist 1768,” and commences— 
Spi} 
“The many favours received during the Bole of a 
long, uninterrupted and happy acquaintance. : 
Although turning aside to other studies, Warner was, 5 Nichole 
tells us, employed “ to the last hour of his life’ upon this Glos- 
1x George Steevens published twenty of Shakespeare’s plays in 4 vols., 8vo, in 1766, at the sam ¢ 
time announcing his proposed complete edition, which appeared in 1773. 
