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year at the time of his decease. His early training was for the 

 medical profession ; but lie took a distaste for the drudgery 

 inseparable from the career of a general practitioner, while 

 devoting his attention to the botanical portion of his curriculum. 

 After graduating at Edinburgh University, he gained a practical 

 knowledge of horticulture in the firm ot Peter Lawson and Sons 

 of the same city, continuing his horticultural training with 

 Mr. Eonalds of Brentford, at that time busied on his ' Pyrus 

 Mains Brentfordiensis,' which is said to have given the impetus 

 to his life-long devotion to pomology. 



After some time spent at Brentford, he proceeded to Eouen, 

 where the forest garden was under the management of the 

 celebrated Dubrueil, thence migrating to Paris and prosecuting 

 bis studies under Adrien de Jussieu and Mirbel. Next he 

 passed on to Bouu, and after some time spent there, at a time 

 when Treviranus and Nees von Esenbeck were supreme, he 

 came home. He soon found that pure science held out little 

 prospect of pecuniary reward, so he began to turn to account his 

 acquired stores of botanic and vegetable physiologic knowledge 

 in a practical way by joining in the management of Brompton 

 Park Nursery in 1845. But the fortunes of this long-established 

 and once celebrated nursery were declining, and after a few 

 years he retired, thenceforward devoting himself to horticultural 

 literature. "Whilst a student at Edinburgh he had published a 

 * Treatise on Annuals,' and in 1S60 produced his ' Eruit Manual,' 

 of which the 5th edition was issued in 1884. 



' British Pomology ' was started in 1844, and the first part, on 

 the Apple, w^as the only one issued ; no publisher would undertake 

 the risk, and the work was not immediately remunerative. 



He took an active part in establishing the British Pomological 

 Society in 1854, with Sir Joseph Paxton as its first President, 

 and, with Mr. Spencer, was a secretary of it from the first ; this 

 Society was in 1858 merged in the Eruit Committee of the Horti- 

 cultural Society. In connection with the latter Society, Dr. Hogg 

 was actively engaged in the work of the Chiswick Garden. 



He threw himself energetically into the management of the 

 London Interuational Horticultural and Botanical Congress of 

 1866. Eor a long series of years he, with Mr. Gr. Johnson, was 

 editor of the 'Journal of Horticulture,' and solely edited the 

 ' Grardener's Tear-book ' for nearly as long. 



Not very long since he resigned his editorial labours to his 

 son, and, as noted above, passed peacefully away. He joined the 

 Linnean Society, 2ud May, 1861. 



Petee Inchbald, of 5 Grosvenor-terrace, Hornsea, was the 

 son of Dr. Inchbald, of Adwick Hall, near Doncaster, and was 

 born in 1816. 



He was a keen naturalist, a Eellow of the Zoological Society 

 and of the London Entomological Society, and was elected a Fellow 



