Reminiscences of Oxford . any, ruraleconomy, taking up his abode in the housebuilt newly at the entrance to Magdalenbridge. He lectured, experimented, wrote;his books on Eoman husbandry, and on thetrees and shrubs of the ancients, are stillinvaluable to the Yirgilian scholar; he carriedout elaborately and with improved devicesPouchets experiments on spontaneous gen-eration, was the first to welcome and extendin England Schonbeins discovery of chemistry lectures were a failure; helacked physical force, sprightliness of manner,oral readiness, and his demonstrations in-Aariably went wro
Reminiscences of Oxford . any, ruraleconomy, taking up his abode in the housebuilt newly at the entrance to Magdalenbridge. He lectured, experimented, wrote;his books on Eoman husbandry, and on thetrees and shrubs of the ancients, are stillinvaluable to the Yirgilian scholar; he carriedout elaborately and with improved devicesPouchets experiments on spontaneous gen-eration, was the first to welcome and extendin England Schonbeins discovery of chemistry lectures were a failure; helacked physical force, sprightliness of manner,oral readiness, and his demonstrations in-Aariably went wrong. He lavished care andmoney on his Physic Garden, introducingDe Candolles system side by side with the oldLinnfuan beds, building new and spacioushouses, in which flourished the Victoria lily, tobe seen elsewhere for a long time only at Kewand Chatsworth, and where the aloe producedits one bloom of the century, its great racemerising in seven days to the height of four andtwenty feet. He cared little for outdoor plants,. DR. a Photograph taken in 1860. PRESCIENTIFIG SCIENCE. 33 and could not condescend to rudimentaryteaching; botany, prospering at Cambridgeunder Henslow, took no hold of , the garden was for nearly eightyyears in the care of the two Baxters, fatherand son, both of them amongst the best ex-ponents in England of our native assiduity and knowledge resulted in acollection of hardy groAvth, exceptional inhealthiness and size, arranged with little rigidityof system, but, with deference to each plantsidiosyncrasies, in spots which the experimentaltenderness of near a century showed to beappropriate. They laboured for a posteritywhich hastened to undo their work. Newbrooms swept the unique old garden clean;young men arose who knew not Joseph;young men in a hurry to produce a littleIvew upon the incongruous Cherwell banks, Parvam Trojam, simulataque magnis Pergama, et arentem Xanthi cognomine rivum. So the time-honoured array was
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