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THE GARDENERS' MONTHLY 



[June, 



supporters of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Soci- 

 ety, and one of its ablest managers to the last. He 

 paid great attention to the introduction of new 

 plants and the improvement of the old races. In 

 camellias and roses he was particularly successful 

 in raising new varieties. Of these Rose Sher- 

 wood's Musk Cluster is still a very popular Noi- 

 sette rose, and Camellia Sherwoodii and Mrs. Cope 

 are yet among the most appreciated of these beau- 

 tiful flowers. 



Mr. Sherwood was a native of Scotland, and 

 was in his seventy-seventh year when he died, on 

 the 3d of May. He was particularly welcome 

 everywhere, by his never-dying good nature. To 

 have an hour with Sherwood, was always regarded 

 as better than medicine, and possibly few have 

 ever passed from gardening circles in Philadelphia 

 more sincerely esteemed. 



Adolph Strauch. — Probably not since the 

 death of A. J, Downing has landscape gardening 

 in America met with a greater loss than by the 

 death of Mr. Adolph Strauch. He was a native 

 of Prussia, born in 1822, 30th of August, and died 

 in his sixty-first year. But he was hale and hearty 

 when the editor saw him last year, and with the 

 promise of many years of usefulness. He came to 

 America when comparatively young, and was on his 

 way from New Orleans when the late R. B. Bowler, 

 of Cincinnati, a first-class judge of a good gardener, 

 met and engaged him. Cincinnati has been made 

 beautiful, chiefly by his teachings, and Dayton, 

 Nashville and other places have all profited by his 

 genius. He was remarkable for a disinterested 

 love of his profession. When the writer of this last 

 met him, he was shown by Mr. S. a very hand- 

 some gold watch and chain, presented to him by 

 some public body he had served without charge, 

 and which, as he expressed it, he valued more than 

 he would $1,000. 



The estimation in which he was held by the Di- 

 rectors of the Spring Grove Cemetery, which he 

 did so much to make famous, is evidenced by the 

 following, which we are glad to print in fijll : 



"At a special meeting of the Board of Directors 

 of the Cemetery of Spring Grove, held Thursday, 

 April 26, 1883, the following memorial was ordered 

 to be entered on the minutes : 



"The Board have received the sad news of the 

 death of their late Superintendent, Mr. Adolph 

 Strauch, with a profound sense of the great loss 

 they have sustained, in common with the lot-own- 

 ers and the community at large. 



"Elected Superintendent in 1854, in his thirty- 

 second year, he would have reached his sixty- 

 first birthday on the 30th of August next. At the 



meetings of the Board he was always present to 

 hear, answer, and advise upon whatever concerned 

 the interestsof the Association. His opinions were 

 valued because, his entire time being spent in the 

 grounds, nothing, however apparently unimpor- 

 tant, escaped his vigilant observation. 



" Mr. Strauch originated the landscape lawn 

 system for cemeteries ; gradually developed its 

 important details, and demonstrated its superiority 

 so clearly that it has been generally adopted, and 

 become the type of many others which have been 

 established within the last ten years. It was clearly 

 the creation of genius, but an eminently practical 

 one, made successful by his great industry, tact 

 and personal popularity. It was not the work of 

 a few years to overcome natural prejudices or the 

 customs of a lifetime, or to surmount obstacles 

 placed in his way by the lot-owners of earlier 

 years, all of whom some years later became zeal- 

 ous for the new system, as well as his strongest 

 friends. The execution of his plans required not 

 alone years of patient labor, which would have 

 discouraged ordinary men, but it became neces- 

 sary to obtain the means by the sale of large indi- 

 vidual lots to make the system successful, and he 

 lived to see it accomplished and spoken of with 

 pride as the sylvan park of the living as well as 

 the dead, now perhaps the most important posses- 

 sion of the people of Cincinnati. Years ago he 

 had filled the measure of his ambition by the con- 

 sent of his profession, which ranked him as the 

 equal of Repton and Puckler-Muskau as a master 

 of art in landscape creation, which had been 

 finally proved by him to be possible to be success- 

 fully applied in adorning and making attractive 

 the last resting places of humanity. 



" It is a privilege to say of him, personally, that 

 he was a favorite amongst all classes. A singular 

 modesty, combined with a natural, warm-hearted 

 manner, made friends for him everywhere, who 

 gave him their confidence and respect. Ever 

 ready, particularly in times of bereavement, seldom 

 has any man's advice been sought more confid- 

 ingly, and rarely has needed counsel been given 

 more disinterestedly. 



"Throughout this long period of service, in a 

 position of great responsibility, exposed to its inci- 

 dental temptations, his honesty was never ques- 

 tioned. He was a man of strict integrity. His 

 fidelity to every interest of this cemetery is univer- 

 sally known, as well as the exact truth, that at all 

 seasons, by night and day, his whole strength, 

 combined with a rare intelligence, was spent in its 

 service and for its advancement. Such devotion 

 is rare. It is simple justice to his memory that we 

 should bear witness to it. 



"The more private relations which he occupied 

 to the employees of the Association were a sure 

 test of the man's character. They were honora- 

 ble, friendly, durable, loving even in special in- 

 stances ; but by none will he be more sincerely 

 mourned than by the humble laboring men and 

 women with whom he was on terms of aff"ec- 

 tiona'te sympathy. As the husband and father of 

 an interesting family, he was truly beloved and 

 singularly happy. To his children he leaves the 



