RICHARD WARNER AS VIEWED BY KALM. 249 
the Academy had chosen amongst a thousand, it could not have chosen a 
better; his kindness, his tender care for all that concerned my journey 
{to North America] in spite of his thousand items of business, has been so 
great, that I cannot express my gratitude for it ; nor can the Academy thank 
him sufficiently ; he it was who introduced me ae a rich Englishman, allied 
fin sympathy] to Herr Archiater [Linneus] and Baron Bjelke ; he is the 
greatest fancier in all the world for collecting and cultivating every kind 
of trees, plants and herbs; from the sun’s uprising until its going down 
(as we sing in our Psalm) and still later, he remains in his garden; he has 
there 4 beautiful orangeries stuffed full with every kind of foreign plants, 
of which he has, in a word, abundance ; Herr Archiater can easily imagine 
how quickly we agreed; while he was at home I was hardly absent from 
him one hour; he shared with me all the seeds he had, and I think I may 
safely say, that in liberality as regards seeds, he surpassed both Herr Archi- 
ater and Herr Baron Bjelke ; I had many occasions of this, for when he 
had only a few of certain rare seeds which he could save last spring, say 4, 
he gave me 2, or one half; the previously mentioned two gentlemen would 
hardly have gone so far as that; this gentleman’s name is Warner, a very 
learned man, and thorough in everything. I see that . . . when I 
return from America here 2 or 3 months next autumn . . . I should 
pass for a worthless fellow, if I could not get here a great abundance of all 
the foreign plants, either their seeds, or living, which occur in English 
orangeries and gardens ; it would be ashame to me if I did not get them, for 
the people are extremely good. 3 
“The seeds now sent are almost all coer and a great part which Mr. 
Miller received last autumn from America; a large part I collected with my 
own hands in Mr. Warner’s splendid garden. Mr. Warner is Miller’s special 
friend ;. he will accompany me to him, to introduce me, and therefore as 
I am now come to London, I think of taking up my quarters a little way, 
from Chelsea garden, to be always with him ; it will be useful in future to 
be his special friend. a3 | 
SrOckHOIM, 23 MAY, 1751... . ““Mr. Warner has been very 
fortunate in sowing the seeds I sent him earlier; hardly a single one has 
failed, but I saw with pleasure the plants develope and thrive well in his 
garden ; they could not do better in their own native country. : 
“ At my stay in London I was so lucky as to get a considerable quantity 
of selected seeds from the East Indies, collected in their native localities 
in 1749 and 1750; that they are good I know from our common friend, 
Mr. Warner, the Englishman, who introduced me to the clergyman who, 
at his suggestion, gathered them; he had, a few days before my arrival 
in London, sown some of the seeds, and before I left London nearly all had 
come up in his orangery, which I saw; most of them were from Malabar, 
and bear the Malabar names on their wrappers though in European letters.”’ 
ABO, 5 JUNE, 1752. . . . “ By the last post I received from my 
friend Warner in London some seeds which a friend of his collected in Bengal, 
in which land he had made a journey of more than 300 English miles up 
country ; Warner has reared them in his orangery, but neither he nor Miller — 
knows to what genus they belong, he believes that they have never .been 
in Europe before.’ [These seeds were sent to Stockholm, as Kalm in Fin- 
land had no hothouse in which to raise them.] 
