United States of America.

To Roxburgh and his Danish successor Wallich, to Voigt who succeeded
Wallich in Serampore, and hundreds of correspondents in India and
Germany, Great Britain and America, Carey did many a service in
sending plants and--what was a greater sacrifice for so busy a
man--writing letters. What he did for the Hortus Bengalensis may
stand for all.

When, in 1814, Dr. Roxburgh was sent to sea almost dying, Dr. Carey
edited and printed at his own press that now very rare volume, the
Hortus Bengalensis, or a Catalogue of the Plants of the Honourable
East India Company's Botanic Garden in Calcutta. Carey's
introduction of twelve large pages is perhaps his most
characteristic writing on a scientific subject. His genuine
friendliness and humility shine forth in the testimony he bears to
the abilities, zeal, and success of the great botanist who, in
twenty years, had created a collection of 3200 species. Of these
3000 at least had been given by the European residents in India,
himself most largely of all. Having shown in detail the utility of
botanical gardens, especially in all the foreign settlements of
Great Britain, he declared that only a beginning had been made in
observing and cataloguing the stock of Asiatic productions. He
urged English residents all over India to set apart a small plot for
the reception of the plants of their neighbourhood, and when riding
about the country to mark plants, which their servants could bring
on to the nursery, getting them to write the native name of each.
He desiderated gardens at Hurdwar, Delhi, Dacca, and Sylhet, where
plants that will not live at Calcutta might prosper, a suggestion
which was afterwards carried out by the Government in establishing a