he introduced, it might be said he found them poor, and he
cultivated them till he left to succeeding generations a rich and
varied orchard.

While still in Dinapoor, he wrote on 1st January 1798: "Seeds of
sour apples, pears, nectarines, plums, apricots, cherries,
gooseberries, currants, strawberries, or raspberries, put loose into
a box of dry sand, and sent so as to arrive in September, October,
November, or December, would be a great acquisition, as is every
European production. Nuts, filberts, acorns, etc., would be the
same. We have lately obtained the cinnamon tree, and nutmeg tree,
which Dr. Roxburgh very obligingly sent to me. Of timber trees I
mention the sissoo, the teak, and the saul tree, which, being an
unnamed genus, Dr. Roxburgh, as a mark of respect to me, has called
Careya saulea."

The publication of the last name caused Carey's sensitive modesty
extreme annoyance. "Do not print the names of Europeans. I was
sorry to see that you printed that Dr. Roxburgh had named the saul
tree by my name. As he is in the habit of publishing his drawings
of plants, it would have looked better if it had been mentioned
first by him." Whether he prevailed with his admiring friend in the
Company's Botanic Garden to change the name to that which the useful
sal tree now bears, the Shorea robusta, we know not, but the term is
derived from Lord Teignmouth's name. Carey will go down to
posterity in the history of botanical research, notwithstanding his
own humility and the accidents of time. For Dr. Roxburgh gave the
name of Careya to an interesting genus of Myrtaceœ. The great
French botanist M. Benjamin Delessert duly commemorates the labours
of Dr. Carey in the Musée Botanique.