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his example and precepts, to have a pleasure in gardening they would 

 not have known, had he never lived. 



James Powell, one of the old time florists of Philadelphia, died April 

 ITth, in his seventy-third year. 



John B. Moore, whose name is familiar to grape and rose growers 

 everywhere, died August 22d, at the age of seventy years. Few men 

 have labored more earnestly to improve the American grape, and the 

 variety which bears his name ''Moore's Early," is a lasting monument 

 to his memory. 



Garret R. Garretson one of the great fathers of the American seed 

 trade, died at his home in Flushing, Long Island, N. Y., August 28th, 

 in his seventy-fourth year. 



C. M. Hovey died September 2d, in his seventy-seventh year, thus 

 closing one of the most useful lives that has ever been spent in the 

 field of American Horticulture. As an author we find him, in 1&30, 

 contributing to the New England Farmer. In 1835 he commenced 

 the publication of the American Gardeners Chronicle, which was the 

 pioneer of horticultural publications on the continent. In 1837 the 

 name was changed to Hovey 's Magazine of Horticulture, and under 

 that name it continued its influential usefulness for about thirty-four 

 years. He was one of the oldest members of the Massachusetts Hor- 

 ticultural Society, and it is said, that out of five hundred members of 

 the latter, in 1835, but five survive him. 



As early as 1830 we find him exhibiting thirty varieties of straw- 

 berries. He was the originator of the old favorite Hovey 's Seedling, 

 which for thirty years, according to the records of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, gained the first premiums against the efforts of 

 all other kinds to take this high honor from it. Numbers of the best 

 new plants and fruits of the last fifty years were first introduced to 

 the public from hisjnurseries and seed-house in Boston, and many new 

 seedlings of great merit originated with him. A great and good man 

 has gone, but his good words and works remain to bless generations 

 yet unborn. 



Sarah Hoopes. This good mother of horticulture, passed away at 

 Westchester, Pa., on the 10th of October, in her ninetieth year, be- 

 fore most of us were born she was famous as an amateur horticulturist. 

 The love of trees and flowers which took such active form around the 

 homestead on Cherry Hill Farm had an immense power for good, and 

 it is said that to her we owe the famous nursery Jfirm of Hoopes 

 Brothers & Thomas. 



These, and Dr. George Thomas, of Chester county, whcjse last words 



