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■was extremely temperate in his habits, and possessed the power of 

 ■quickl}' deciding on the most important subjects. He, was, there- 

 fore, able to do an immense amount of work with comparative ease. 

 It was always Mr. Henderson's unswerving practice to spend two or 

 three hours daily in the open air. A tbrlnight before his death, he 

 was in his office, and felt a little cold coming on, but did not think 

 it serious. The following day he was laid up with la grippe, but 

 he thought he had got over that, and was able to go out for about 

 ten minutes and take a walk around his grounds in Jersey City 

 Heights. When he came into the house he felt he had got a chill, and 

 had a relapse, whic ; shortly developed into pneumonia. All the aid 

 that human skill and forethought could summon was rendered, but 

 he died peacefully after only a few hours' sufTering, January 17, 

 1890. — Condensed from Florist's Exchange. 



CHARLES GIBB. 



" No man was doing more for his country and our« than he." 

 We are indebted to Mr. L. Woolverton of the Canadian Horti- 

 culturist for advanced sheets of that magazine containing a sketch of 

 Mr. Gibb. From this excellent sketch we abridge the following : 



"Mr. Charles Gibb was born at Montreal on the thirtieth of June, 

 184G. He received his early education at Bishop's College, Len- 

 noxville, and went from there to McGill College, Montreal, where 

 he graduated B. A., at the age of nineteen. The application neces- 

 sary to complete a college course successfully at so earh' an age, 

 not only injured his eyesight, but also much impaired his health, and 

 he was told by physicians that he had only a few years, perhaps 

 •only a few months to live, and they advised him to seek recupera- 

 tion in foreign travel. This he did, going abroad in company with 

 his uncle for two or three years to Egypt, the Holy Land, and 

 afterwards Switzerland and Europe generally. 



"On his return he engaged in the cultivation of fruit, in the State 

 of Pennsylvania, no doubt because he rightly considered it one of 

 the most healthful, as well as one of the most interesting depart- 

 ments of agriculture. The climate of Pennsylvania not agreeing 

 with him, he returned to Canada, and purchased the farm on the 

 slope of the Yamaska mountain, at Abbottsford, so well known to 



