74 Obituary Notice. 



Mr Ernst concludes his letters with the following remarks on Horticul- 

 tural taste in the vicinity of Boston : — 



A few remarks on Horticultural taste that exists about Boston, and I 

 will close for the present. When a Cincinnatian finds himself within its 

 suburbs and the region around, the first thing that will forcibly strike his 

 eye, is the high state of cultivation to which industry and perseverance 

 have brought the face of a rough and rocky country from what he would 

 look on at home as beyond recovery, but which now abounds in blooming 

 and fruitful fields and gardens. The next thing, is the perfect respect 

 which is paid to men's rights ; he will observe, to his surprise, as he 

 passes along the roadside, that it is not necessary to build high fences, 

 with heavy gates and bars, bolts, and locks, to keep out the intruder from 

 appropriating to himself the fruits of his industry ; he will see that their 

 fences and gates are merely ornamental appendages, over which the 

 branches of trees hang with their ample loads of golden fruit, as well as 

 gorgeous flowers, perfectly within reach of the hand ; yet no man or wo- 

 man with the least pretensions to respectability, would presume to dis- 

 turb what is not their own, or enter those premises, witliout being invited 

 by the owner. He will see no hogs, cows, dogs, or other animals roam- 

 ing at large, ready to pounce in, if a gate should by some unlucky chance 

 be left loose, to destroy the labor and expenditure of years. I do not 

 however wish to be understood that there is nothing to find fault witli ; 

 this is not my object. These are some of tlie fruits of Horticultural taste, 

 as bearing on those who raise fruits for their living or comfort. Another 

 great advantage is, it has discriminated between the value of good and 

 common fruits, vegetables, &c., in offering proper rewards to those who 

 produce the best of these articles, and fixing a value on men and their 

 productions in proportion to their wortli. The consequence is, that a repu- 

 tation for correctness, honesty, and intelligence, is looked to as of more 

 consequence in those whose business it is to supply the public wants, in 

 the various departments of Horticulture, than in the low price of the ar- 

 ticles. — *5. H. Ernst. Spring- Garden, Jan. 3d, 1844. 



Art. IV. Obituary J^otice. 



Death of J. C. Loudon, Esq. — It is with feelings of the most painful 

 regret, that we announce the death of this distinguished writer and most 

 estimable man, wjiose works are familiar to every lover of horticulture, 

 and whose labors as conductor of tlie Gardener's Magazine for nineteen 

 years, have had such an influence in promoting a taste for gardening, not 

 only in England, but on the Continent and tliroughout our own country. 

 The January number of the Magazine, which was to commence the new 

 volume, has been made the last which will ever be published, and is paged 

 as a continuation of the last volume, so as to close up tlie work to that pe- 

 riod. The loss of Mr. Loudon's Magazine cannot be made good. It was 

 the first which was ever published, and though numbers Jiave sprung up 

 since and many are now in circulation, yet none of them ever approached 

 near his. No writer ever had a more happy facility of popidarizi7uc the 

 subjects on which he wrote, than Mr. Loudon, and his originality of ideas, 

 as well as his independence of their expression, upon everytliing con- 

 nected with gardening and rural improvement, gained for him friends 



