giognpMcal ^Miha jof gistingiiislicij gmtiion f)0rticulturists. 



THOMAS HOGG, Sen'r, of Yorkvim.e, N. Y. 



Another of the pioneers of American Horticulture is gone. For more than thirty 

 years Mr. Hogg occupied a prominent place among the professional florists and nur- 

 serymen of the United States, and it would not be right were we to allow his death to 

 pass umioticed in this journal. We liave deferred the announoement of liis decease, 

 for the purpose of accompanying it with a luief sketdi of his useful, well-spent life. 



The culture of exotic plants, and indeed all branches of liorticulture, were at a low 

 ebb when his labors in New York commenced ; and he has contributed largely to tlieir 

 advancement. He was a man of superior intelligence, a good botanist, and a genuine, 

 hearty lover of plants for their own sake. As a propagator of plants, he had no supe- 

 rior, to our knowledge, in this country. He was continually on the watch for the 

 really fine new plants; and thus lie always kept his collection fully up with the times. 



He was a remarkably modest, unassuming man, and of an eminently charitable and 

 generous turn of mind. In the frequent interviews we have had with him, during the 

 last eighteen years, we do not remember hearing him utter a single vain, boastful 

 expression, nor one word of an unkind, censorious nature, concerning any Iiuman 

 being. He was ever to be found among his plants — interested, cheerful, and happy — 

 ready to show and point out the qualities of his last new plaTit. 



In his deahngs with the trade, and with the community at large, Mr. Hogg has 

 ever been regarded as one of the most upright and reliable men. During his long 

 career, his name has never been connected with any of the clap-trap novelties with 

 whioh the horticultural world has ever been so frequently duped. He possessed sound 

 judgment and great caution, which, added to his spotless integrity, inspired that confi- 

 dence which Avas so justly and so generally reposed in him. 



Mr. Hogg was highly respected in Europe, as well as at home — no man connected 

 with the trade more so. In our travels, we found him everywhere infpiired about in 

 the kindest manner, and spoken of in the most flattering terms. A large number of 

 the gardeners who came to this country from EurojiC, were recommended to him for 

 advice and assistance ; and these he was ever ready and willing to extend. Hundreds 

 of the men whom he has befriended arc now scattered over this country, and will 

 lament his decease. 



Mr. Hogg's life was not one of much adventure or vicissitude. He was bom at 

 Polwarth, Berwickshire, Scotland, on the 20th of February, 1778, and was therefore 

 aged somewhat over 7G years and 7 months at the time of his death, the 11th of 

 October last. His first occupation in life was taking charge of the men in liis father's 

 employ, who at that time was engaged as a contractor in making a macadamized road 

 through the Cheviot hills, supposed to be the first made in Scotland. Here he became 

 acquainted with Mr. Small, the inventor of the iron plow, who was then a country 

 Wright, and repaired his father's carts. He lias often been lieard to speak 

 ig in his house, and of his recollecting the first plows whicli Small made 



