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throne, Mr. M'Intosh was continued in his service, not only to 

 superintend the Eoyal gardens at Claremont, but also to remodel 

 those at Laecken, of which he had charge for some time. But in 

 1838 he returned to Scotland, to take the management of the Duke 

 of Buccleuch's gardens at Dalkeith ; and it was he who planned 

 the magnificent grounds and conservatories belonging to that 

 palace. Having performed the duties of this situation for twenty 

 years, Mr. M'Intosh resigned his appointment, and became a 

 landscape-gardener and garden- architect on his own account — an 

 occupation in which he justly acquired the highest reputation in 

 all parts of England and Scotland. 



Mr. M'Intosh was a voluminous writer, and his publications 

 upon several branches of the horticultural profession are nu- 

 merous. Those, however, by which he will be best and most . 

 favourably known are ' The Practical G-ardener,' published many 

 years ago, and of which several editions have appeared ; ' The 

 Greenhouse;' ' The Orchard and Fruit- Garden,' of more recent 

 date ; and the ' Book of the G-ardeu,' which records the results 

 of modern practice, and may be said to form a sort of garden 

 Encyclopaedia. He was also a frequent contributor to various 

 horticultural and agricultural periodicals. The Horticultural 

 department of the ' Scottish Farmer ' was conducted by him from 

 its commencement. 



He died on the 9th of January, in the present year, at his resi- 

 dence, Newcome Villa, Murray -field, in his 70th year. 



The Bev. W. Stohbs was bom at Eoxburgh, on the 13th De- 

 cember, 1799, the son of parents more marked by their piety and 

 worth than by their position in life. The means for his support, 

 therefore, and for the prosecution of his education Avere dependent 

 solely upon his own eff"orts. He first taught privately in va- 

 rious families of the sheep-farmers scattered among the Cheviot 

 Hills, and in after-life often adverted with interest to the kind- 

 ness he experienced, and the pleasures he enjoyed, amid what he 

 called the labours of his boyhood. He subsequently proceeded 

 to Edinburgh, where, during his whole curriculum of study, he 

 taught in a public school. Having in this way passed through 

 the usual university course, he was licensed as a minister of the 

 gospel by the Presbytery of Edinburgh in 1824. 



The first call he accepted was that of the congregation of Ellon, 

 where he remained a year before entering upon a wider sphere of 

 usefulness in Stromness, into which cure he was inducted on the 

 11th of June, 1829, and where he passed the remainder of his days 



