T6 Obituary Notice. 



is likely lontr to continue a standard book on the subjects on which it 

 treats. Mr. Loudon now began to prepare his great and ruijious "vcoik, the 

 Jlrbordum Britannicum, the anxieties attendant on which were, undoubt- 

 edl\', the primary cause of that decay of constitution, which terminated 

 in his death. This work was not, however, completed till 1838, and in 

 the mean time he began tlie Architectural Magazine, the first periodical 

 devoted exclusively to architecture. The labor he underwent at this time 

 was almost incredible. He had four periodicals, viz; the Gardtjur^s, 

 JVatural Histonj, and .Irchitectitral Magazines, and the .Irboretum Britan- 

 nicum, wliich was ])ublished in montlily numbers, going on at the same 

 time ; and, to produce them at the proper times, he literally worked night 

 and day. Immediately on the conclusion of the Arboretum Britannicum, 

 he began the Suburban Gardener, which was also published in lt38, as 

 was the Hortus Lignosus Londoniensis ; and in 1839 appeared his edition 

 of Repton's Landscape Gardening. In 1840 he accepted the editorship 

 of the Gardener'' s Gazette, which he retained till November, 1841 : and in 

 1842 he republished his Ena/clopo'dia of Trees and Shrubs. In tlie same 

 year he completed liis Suburban Horticidturist ; and finally in 1843, he 

 published his work on Cemeteries, tlie last separate work he ever wrote. 

 In this list, many minor productions of Mr. Loudon's pen have been ne- 

 cessarily omitted ; but it may be mentioned, that he contributed to the 

 Enci/clopttdia Britannica and Brande's Dictionai'y of Science; and that he 

 published numerous supplements from time to time of his various works. 



No man, perhaps, has ever written so much, under such adverse circum- 

 stances, as Mr. Loudon. Manj' years ago, when he first came to England, 

 (in 1803), he had a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism, which disabled 

 him for two years, and ended in an ancbylosed knee, and a contracted 

 left arm. In the year 1820, whilst compiling the Encyclopfrdia of Gar- 

 dening, he had another severe attack of rheumatism ; and the following 

 year, being recommended to go to Brighton to get shampooed in Mahom- 

 med's Baths, his right arm was there broken near the shoulder, and it 

 never properly united. Notwithstanding this, he continued to write with 

 his right hand till 1825, when his arm was broken a second time, and he 

 was then obliged to have it amputated : but not before a general breaking 

 up of the frame had commenced, and the thumb and two fingers of the 

 left hand had been rendered useless. He afterwards suffered frequently 

 from ill health, till his constitution was finally undermined bj' the anxiety 

 attendant on that most costly and laborious of all his works, ^e Arbontum 

 Brilannicum, which has unfortunately not yet paid for itself. He died at 

 last of disease of the lungs, after suffering severely for about three 

 months ; and he retained all his clearness and energy of mind to the 

 last. His labors as a Landscape Gardener are too numerous to be de- 

 tailed here, but that which he always considered as the most important, 

 was the laying out of the Arboretum, so nobly presented by Joseph Strutt, 

 Esq., to the town of Derby. 



Never, perhaps, did any man possess more energy and determination 

 than Mr. Loudon ; whatever he began he pursued with enthusiasm, and 

 carried out, notwithstanding obstacles that would have discouraged any 

 ordinary person. He was a warm friend, and most kind and affectionate 

 in all his relations of son, husband, father and brother ; and he never 

 hesitated to sacrifice pecuniary considerations to what he considered his 

 duty. That he %vas always most anxious to promote the welfare of g^ar- 



