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Ad-istehim Report. — The ad-intrrini report from the Committee of the American Pomolo- 

 gical Society, will he found of the highest interest. Tlie new fruits ripened the past season, 

 have undergone the scrutiny of the Committee, and they give their unbiassed opinions in a 

 manner highly satisfactory ; their labore will attract the attention of all persons interested 

 in these important topics. 



The length of the above report has prevented the insertion, this mouth, of " Visits to 

 Country Places, around Newport ;" Mr. Chorlton's excellent article on " Peas" supersedes 

 one of the " Old Digger's" on the same subject, and contains later infoimation as to kinds 

 to be selected for growth. The interesting biography of Loudon being concluded in the 

 present number, we shall have more sj^ace in our next to devote to our correspondents. 



Memoir of Loudon. — This graceful memoir is concluded in the present number, and doubt- 

 less has interested mogt of our readers. Mr. Loudon's career was a most useful one ; in 

 respect to its close, it resembled Sir Walter Scott's ; he was ruined pecuniarily, however, 

 by his own publication of the great work, the Arboretum r.t Fruticetum Britannicum, which 

 was issued, on his own account, at an outlay of fifty thousand dollars ; but it sold so well, 

 that only thirteen thousand remained to be paid at the end of 1841, and he died in 1843. 

 The work has since sold extensively, and his debts were paid. 



In industry, Mr. Loudon will compare favorably with Sir Walter ; he had four periodicals, 

 viz : The Gardener^s, Natural History, and Architectural Magazines, and the Arboretum, which 

 was published in monthly numbers, going on at the same time, and, to produce these at the 

 proper time, he literally worked night and day, suffering much pain, and writing with two 

 fin<Ters of his left hand. Never did any man possess more energy and determination; 

 whatever he began he pursued with enthusiasm, and carried out, notwithstanding obstacles 

 that would have discouraged any ordinary person. 



His labors as a landscape-gardener are too numerous to be detailed, but he always con- 

 sidered the most important was laying out the arboretum so nobly presented by Joseph 

 Strutt, M. P., to the town of Derby. 



The Advertising Sheet. — Nothing marks the increased influence of the Horticulturist 

 more than the demand for space in its advertising sheet ; it seems likely to exceed, in 

 extent of pages, the work itself. The present month's issue is an interesting resume of the 

 business of the country, north, south, east, and west, which will command attention. The 

 printer has been curious enough to sum up the number of trees and shrubs in the thirty- 

 four pages that have passed under his critical eye, and finds them to amount to two million 

 and upwards, independent of those without enumeration of the quantity. 



The importance o^ concentrating in one journal the whole advertising of this extensive 

 and flourishing business must be apparent ; we receive incidentally from correspondents 

 the strongest evidence of its value to both buyer and seller, and were we at all disposed 

 be jealous, might take exception to remarks which indicate that it is the first part 



