[Sansevierias] BOTANY

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John Kay.  Dr. John Hope, Professor of Botany in 
the University of Edinburgh Kay's Originals, Vol 2, page 412

John Hope (1725-1786) was a Scottish physician & 
botanist. He is best known as an early supporter 
of Carl Linnaeus's system of classification. He 
served as president of the Royal College of 
Physicians of Edinburgh, 1784-6.  Hope was the 
son of surgeon Robert Hope & Marion Glas.  He 
studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. 
He took leave to study botany under Bernard de 
Jussieu at the University of Paris, but returned 
to his studies in Scotland, graduating MD from 
the University of Glasgow in 1750.


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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

For the next decade he practiced medicine, 
indulging in botany in his spare time. In 1760, 
he was appointed as King's Botanist & as 
Professor of Botany & Materia Medica at the 
University of Edinburgh.  Hope succeeding in 
combining the gardens & collections at Trinity 
Hospital & Holyrood to a new, combined site on 
the road to Leith. He also succeeded in obtaining 
a permanent endowment for the garden, thus 
establishing arguably the first ever "Royal Botanic Garden."

When Hope became the 6th Regius Keeper of the 
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 1761, he made a 
momentous decision early on in his tenure: close 
down the existing small physic gardens at 
Holyrood to create a new, much larger garden on a 5 acre site on Leith Walk.

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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

At its entrance, Hope decided to build a little 
house which could serve as a gateway to the 
garden, a home for his head gardener, & a 
classroom in which he could teach medical 
students about botany it would come to be known as the Botanic Cottage.

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The Botanic Cottage at the entrance to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Designed by noted architects John Adam & James 
Craig the latter responsible for designing the 
layout of Edinburgh’s New Town just a few years 
later in 1767 – the Botanic Cottage was completed 
in 1765.  Hundreds of students learned about 
botany in its large upstairs room overlooking the 
garden, hearing directly from Professor Hope 
about his experiments & studies, & referring to 
his detailed diagrams & illustrations.