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colle,st, in return sor the treas ures of America. In this excitange of good ossices, there is abundant cause to belleve no man ever exceeded 'him in respect to punctuali ty, care, or generosity;Dw had ever more intelligent eorrespondenis, orsucceeded beller in enriching this country withthe vegetable produce of every other, that couldeither add to iis advantage Or ornament. Andwere Ι to asieri, that he was the means of introducing more new and beautiful planis into Britain than any mala of his time, and was inseriorto none in his acquaintance With the history of their introduction, I mould ruta litile hagard of transgressing the bounes of Veracity. Many anecdotes of this kind he had learnedfrona the ancient botant is, Who flouris hed at hisenti ance into these studies s and many obser vations he had likewi se made in the course ofabove half a centUry. Were suci, of the formeros these, as he noted in most of the books of ndurat history Which he lest bellind him, colleched, and the many curious remarks he madeon a Variety of improVing and entertaining subjedis, digested and laid bebore the public, aricher treas ure of valvabie knowledge can scarcelybe onered to it, especialty is judicious extracts were added frona the letters of his correspon
The great Linnaeus, at the time of his res dence in England , coneracted an intimate friendia
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increased by a multitude of good ossices, and continued to the last without any diminution. . It waS not, hoWeVer, to Britalia only that his benevolent Views Uere Confined: as he took much patris to excite a iaste in the Americansor natural history, so he likewise osten prompte litiem to Pursite improvemenis, alii e beneficialto thenaseives and to their mother cohantry. HOWof ten have I heard him urge to such of them asvisited him, the benefit, nay necessity, of culti Vating fax, hemp, Wine, silli, and other producis lHe would pressi the Virginians to belliinti them-selves in time os a more permanent staple than a plant Whose consumption only depends oncustom and caprice, and this custom datly de clining. Vines, Did he, will thrive weli in yourcountry ; but imitate nature in their cultivation ;do not keep them close to the ground, as we are forced to do in this and other northeria European climates, for the salie of a litile more sun and heat to ripen the grape : yOUr fiammer heais ex- ceed, as much as ours fali mori; allow them, there re, longer stems; let them be trained to, and supported by trees, and hide their fruit among the sollage, as in the warmer paris Of
We frequently lamented the supinenes s and inattention of the colonisis to their interest inthis, as Weli as many other articies. In most os the northern and fouthern colonies there are avariety of native grapes, growing Wild in the oods, and tWining among the trees and bushessor
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disterent kinds, and many of them capable of producing a rich good wine ; how easy would ithe in autumn to collest a sufficient quantity of the fruit to malae trial of the wine i Ιt has been done by a very se , and with successi ; the fauit
seems not so much in the fruit, as want of stillor care in making the wine. I have tasted sonae very good wine frona the wild uncultivaled grape, made without much shill, and sent over to Eng- land ; what M ould not the same fruit, with pro- per sicili and management, have produced y It is certainly high time for the Americans to applythenaseives With a litile more diligence to culti vate their native produce. No person, perhaps, was more intently solicito is than my sriend topromote these Usei Ul eslays, as no person Wasbe iter ac quainted with the natural produce of America; none sam the bene iis that might re sult frona them more clearly, nor could suggest more compendioUS and Unexpensive means os procUring them. Besides his attachment to natural his hory, hewas Very conVersant in the antiquities of his own COUntrV; many Curio US remariis, as weli as sonae
ancient Briti si curiosities, are in the possession ofhis son. FeW persons were better acquaintelwith the progress of aris, sciences, and manu fastures, or improvements of any hin i, amongitus, than himself. The ancient state, and iis gradual ad vances to the present, Was a frequent topic of his en quiry and conversation.
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He was a member of the Society of Antiquarians frona iis first institution, and supplied them osten With many curious articles of intelligeiace and observation, respedi ing both our
or however feemingly engaged, nothing at any time escaped his notice, is it appeared likely tobe useful or instructive. Why he was not electedone of the Curators of the Britisti Mustum, Wasmatter of wonder to many of his acquaintance. He was one of the founder's most ancient annintimate frientis, a contributor to this collection, acquainted with the subjects, and had done more toWards Prom Oting researches into natural history than perhaps most of his cotemporaries :hut he had no greater ambition than to collectwhat knowledge he could, and to render this
knowledge subservient as much as possibi e to thegood of mankind. He lived many years in great domestic happinesse ; his family took the sanae bias, and aide litis pursu iis . Like his own, it Was also theiramus ement; and being accUstomed to the conversation of men acquainted with such sub edis, they acquired both knowledge and an attachment to the study Os nature. His person was rather stiori than tali , he hada pleasing and sociat aspect ; os a temper ope nand communicative, capable os Deling for dintressi, and ready to reli eve and sympathiete. Herose Very early, and whilst in the country his
time Was almost continualty employed in his gar-
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den, observing and assisting the operations os nature, or in the study of other paris of physical knowledge; Whicli contributed to his health and
his pleas Ure. He was sond of fruit to an extreme, and offlowers a perpetuat admirer; he was seldomwithout them in his house, from the early Snowdrop to the autumn Cyclamen. He would ostenrelate with plea re the astoriistaing advancement made in his time in horticulture; gave instances of many planis, Whicli at their first introduction
mvrs of the Unthinking and injudiciolas against a climate the most favo u rabie of ali others tothe real happinesse of manliind. Excepting some attacks of the goui, in generat he ei oyed perfeci health and great equalityos spiriis bearing those trials whicli are incidentio man with fortitude and resignation.
his friends, and country, of a man devoted totheir interest and advantage. Inciosed in . his
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and that, ali his days, he constantly ai med tobe a Friend to Manliind. V Such indeed hewas, to the ulmost of his abi lily; and he may justly be considered as a latent spring to many
important improVemenis, as Weli as one of the
principat promoters of natural history in generat, and of horticulture in particular, in the age in which he live l. He has test bellind him, besides many curiousanecdotes relatiVe to the state of botany, plantinet, and horti culture in this cohantry, a vast trea-sure of dried specimens of planis; and in spite os repeated and most Cruel depredations madeo pon his garden, Whereby he lost a multitude ofvaluabie and Curious planis and stirubs, and had besides very many others destroyed by the villainsin the adt of plunder, he neverthelesse test a smalltrealare os rare planis in greater perfection per-haps than can be seen in any other spol. That whicli I am noW, though feebly, attempting to do sor hina, he osten executed sorhis friends, rescued their names Dom oblivion, and proposed their Viriues to be copi ed by succeeding generations. The late Dr. Stul eley wasone ; and many Others might be mentioned, wholiave received from his friendly hand the tribute