LIFE OF JOHN 0. LOUDON. 



sioimlly roundish. Sli'n, peculiarly marked villi finely reticulated pray islands, 

 separated by i)alc p:roen straits, and having irrcfrular, dark green, longitudinal 

 stripes, extending from the base to the ape.x. Hind, thin, altout half an inch. 

 Seed, jiure cream white, with a faint russet stripe around the edge. Flesh, deep 

 red to the centre. /Vat-or, sugary and delicious. Qualif t/, "hcsV^ Productive- 

 ness, said to be unusuallt great. 



Ravenscroft Watkrmklon — This valuable Watermelon originated with Col. 

 A. O. Summer, of South Carolina. 



Size, large. Form, oblong. »SZ-m, dark green, faintly striped and marked with 

 green of a lighter shade, and divided, longitudinally, Ijy sutures, from an inch and 

 a quarter to two inches apart. Hind, not more than half an inch in thickness. 

 Seed, cream color, tipped with brown at the eye, and having a brown stripe around 

 the edge. Flesh, fine red, commencing abrujitly at the rind, and extending to the 

 centre. Flavor, delicious and sugary. Qnaliti/, "Ijest." 



l^RAPFORD Watermelon. — The Bradford is a highly prized South Carolina 

 Watermelon. 



Size, large. Form, oblong. S/:in, dark green, with gray, longitudinal stripes 

 mottled and reticulated with green. Find, not exceeding half an inch in thick- 

 ness. Seed, yellowish white, slightly mottled, and with a yellowish-brown stripe 

 around the edge, Flesh, fine red to the centre. Flavor, fine and sugary. Qualify/, 

 "best." 



Odell's Large White Watermelon This immense Watermelon originated 



with a negro man on the property of Col. A. G. Summer, of South Carolina. 



Size, very large, sometimes weighing sixty pounds. Form, round. Skin, gray, 

 with fine green network spread over its uneven surface. Find, nearly three-fourths 

 of an inch in thickness. Seed, large, grayish black, and not numerous. Flesh, 

 pale red. Flavor, fine. Quality, "very good." Productiveness, said to exceed 

 that of most other kinds. 



The large size and long-keeping quality, after being separated from the vine, 

 will recommend this variety — especially for the market. 



W. D. Brinckle, M. D., Cliairman. 



A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS 

 OF JOHN CLAUDIUS LOUDON. 



BY HIS WIDOW. 



(COXCLCDED FROM PAGE 64.) 



In the year 182T, Mr. Loudon suggested the idea of planting some public walk 

 according to the natural system, and naming the trees in the way that has lately 

 been done in Kensington Gardens. The same year, the first notices were inserted 

 of horticultural societies offering premiums for the production of certain vegetables, 

 flowers, and fruits — a plan which has since been carried to a very great extent. 



In the year 1828, the Magazine of Natural History was begun, being the first 

 work of its kind; and this work, though not quite so successful as the Gardener''s 

 Mocjnzine, was very popular, and has had numerous imitators. Towards the close 

 of this year, Mr. Loudon paid another visit to the Continent, to obtain informa- 

 tion for a new edition of the Fncyclopcedia of Agricvlture. After traversing 

 France, he proceeded through Strasburg to Munich and Stuttgard ; he afterwards 

 visited Heidelberg and Carlsruhe, and returned by Metz to Paris, and thence to 

 England. In the Gardenerh Magazine for 1828, he 'began to give an account of 

 this tour, and he continued it through several of the succeeding volumes, inter- 



