. Henry Nicholson Ellacombe hon. canon of Bristol, vicar of Bitton and rural dean, 1822-1916 a memoir . preserved bears the date February 9,1875, and was written from the rectory, Clyst , Topsham. Though it is a long time ago since I had any com-munication with Kew—not I think since Mr. Aitonstime !—my name is not perhaps unknown to you as thefounder of the fine collection of herbaceous plants atBitton and the old father of the present gardener andpossessor. I therefore venture to ask if you can supply mewith any of the hardies in the annexed list ? 1 cannotfind them anywhere. The ros
. Henry Nicholson Ellacombe hon. canon of Bristol, vicar of Bitton and rural dean, 1822-1916 a memoir . preserved bears the date February 9,1875, and was written from the rectory, Clyst , Topsham. Though it is a long time ago since I had any com-munication with Kew—not I think since Mr. Aitonstime !—my name is not perhaps unknown to you as thefounder of the fine collection of herbaceous plants atBitton and the old father of the present gardener andpossessor. I therefore venture to ask if you can supply mewith any of the hardies in the annexed list ? 1 cannotfind them anywhere. The rose I left at Bitton. Ireceived it from Berlin, it has a red foliage like a redbeech. Aponogeton distachyon—this though a Capeplant—was not injured by a hard frost in December, andthe blossoms were frozen in,and in bunches upon the ice. I shall be very thankful and gratified if you canmake up my wants, and do me the favour to allowwhat you can spare to be sent to me. My address asabove and South Western Rail to Topsham. You willvery much oblige and gratify, Yours faithfully, H. T. H. T. ELLACOMBE. From a miniature painted in 1817 H. T. ELLACOMBE 31 The Alton referred to was William Townsend Aiton,with whom he corresponded in 1828. W. T, Aitonsucceeded his father, William Aiton, as Chief Super-intendent of the Royal Gardens at Kew in February,1795, and held the post until 1840, when he resignedand was succeeded as Director by Sir William Hooker. Henry Thomas Ellacombe lived and ministered atClyst St. George until his death in 1885 at the age ofninety-five, after sixty-eight years of active service asa parish priest, and was buried at Bitton. By his death,as our record shows, there passed away a man remark-able both in his wide interests and in his conspicuousability who, had he so willed, might have occupied avery important position in the public life of thecountry.^ H. T. Ellacombe was a remarkably vigorous person-ality, and something of an autocrat in his way
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