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who for nearly twenty years have welcomed its appearance. 

 The gardening newspapers are useful in their way, but they 

 bear no comparison m point of scientific advancement with 

 Loudon's Magazine. His death is a most severe loss to sci- 

 ence, both to Europe and the United States. 



The family of Mr. Loudon, owing to the immense cost of 

 the Arboretum, are now deprived of the income of his publi- 

 cations, owing to the proceeds of their sales being pledged to 

 the printer and engraver ; an effort is now making to release 

 this pledge, so that the whole income may go to Mrs. Loudon 

 and family, and we are happy to learn that it is likely soon to 

 be effected. Those therefore who would like to possess any 

 of his works, and at the same time assist in this undertaking, 

 had better order any particular one, or the whole, direct of 

 Mrs. Loudon. His Arboretum should be in the hands of all 

 who have any love for trees and shrubs, and who can afford 

 to purchase so valuable a book. 



The death of Mr. Gaylord, late editor of the Cultivator, 

 and also of the Hon. Mr. Garnet, of Virginia, is a loss to the 

 agricultural public. Mr. Gaylord was a vigorous writer, and 

 his articles always bore the mark of deep thought and re- 

 search. He very ably filled the place of Judge Buel. 



Art. II. Notes and Recollections of a Tour through Part of 

 England, Scotland, and France, in the autwnn of 1844. 

 By the Editor. 



The objects of our Tour across the Atlantic, were various, 

 but not the least was that of giving our readers some account 

 of the condition of Gardening in that country, from whose 

 works, whose practice and experience, our own cultivators 

 have derived so much knowledge. The publications of the 

 late Mr. Loudon, have given us so intimate an acquaintance 

 with the actual state of 'horticultural science in England, 

 and made us so familiar with many of the parks of the no- 

 bility, the gardens of the amateurs, and the grounds of the 

 nurserymen, that those who have been readers of his Maga- 



