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and their united efforts enabled them | dreth in the contemplation of his floral 

 successfully to conduct what was then I family. A beautiful plant, a noble 

 considered an extensive business. A tree, or a landscape decorated by the 

 scrupulous regard to wliat was due to hands of nature or of man, were to him 

 others secured respect and moderate , objects of the purest pleasure. After 

 competency. an active and well-spent life, and with 



To the brothers Landreth, Philadel-'an enviable reputation, he died on the 

 phia is, in a degree, indebted for the 22d August, 1836, aged 84. 

 early development of horticultural taste, LANDSCAPF: GARDENING, as if3_ 

 and in the ficilities which they aiforded name intimates, is the composition of 

 for its gratification the whole Union has beautiful scenery, so that all artifice is 

 participated. Their productions, orna- concealed by the blending of trees, 

 mental and useful, have been distributed shrubs, ground, and water: thus form- 



far and wide. Specimens of fruits and 

 flowers from their grounds exist in al- 

 most every town and hamlet in the 

 country. The earliest collection of Ca- 

 mellias in America was made by them, 

 and their importations of valuable plants 

 and fruits were extensive. Their col- 



ing vistas gratifying as those which 

 occur naturally. Admiration for such 

 scenery is an innate quality of the hu- 

 man mind ; and successfully to imitate 

 such scenery requires judgment as well 

 as taste. It is not possible, without an 

 enormous outlay, to introduce any spe- 



lection of indigenous plants, obtained i cies of landscape beauty upon a given 

 through the agency and friendship of plot of ground. There is the beauty 

 traveling collectors, and local corre- I of the level surface, quite unattainable 

 bpondents, was, perhaps, the largest of upon a surface which is abrupt and bro- 

 ils day, if we except the magnificent ; ken. The beauty of the clay districts 

 one of the Bartram Botanic Garden. is not to he secured upon those of the 

 How vast have been the enlargement chalk; neither on light uplands can be 

 of horticultural taste, and the means of; arranged' the dense beauties of well- 

 gratifying it since Mr. Landreth first | watered alluvions. " Consult the genius 

 embarked in his floral enterprise! Then of the place" is an axiom which has 

 a green-house, or, as it was popularly ^ been derided, but which is dictated by 

 termed, a "glass-house," was an ob- ' the soundest sense, 

 ject of amazement, and a simple rose, j A writer upon the general principles 

 exhibited in a window budding and of landscape gardening has some very 

 blooming " out of season," attracted a jjudicious remarks, from which the fol- 

 wondering crowd. Now a residence in 

 town or country is scarcely considered 



lowing are extracts 



Although due light and shade are 



perfect which does not embrace at least necessary to bring out striking effects, 

 a room prepared for the preservation of I colour must be attended to. Light and 

 plants ; and the thousands who throng , shade, we all know, when the sun 

 the exhibitions of our Horticultural So- ! shines, vary every moment; and ther^- 

 ciety evince the extent of interest on fore it becomes a study so to assort 



the subject. 



The temperate and regular habits of 

 Mr. Landreth promoted health, and 

 protracted life beyond the ordinary 

 term. In manners he was plain and 

 unobtrusive; his temperament ardent, 

 actively sympathizing with the alHicted, 

 or warming with indignation at oppres 



objects, within range of the principal 

 point of view, as to bring out various 

 good effects. Not only must we regard 

 the diurnal motion of the sun, but his 

 position in the ecliptic; so that when 

 he is at various elevations and posi- 

 tions, light may make the lights and 

 hadows spread out where they may 



sion. His fondness for plants increased make the strongest impression on the 

 with age, and, though their culture j eye. 



was the source of his support, he loved 

 them for themselves alone. " Trade 

 was, with him, an adjunct to the grat 



" This is a point not much attended 

 to, but one of^ the greatest value, and 

 well deserving the closest study by the 



fication of a refined enjoyment. Never landscape-gardener. Frequently the ad- 

 did painter look upon his canvas, in glo- ! mission, at a particular spot, of a mere 

 nous enthusiasm for his art, with an eye I streak of light eidivens a whole scene, 

 more abstracted from the lucre which and excites the highest admiration. Sun- 

 his pencil brought, than did David Lau- | shine through trees, when the orb itself 



