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greater part of the descriptions in ' Loudon's Encyclopedia of 

 Plants ' were drawn up by him. He also conducted the whole of 

 the ' Botanical Register,' except during the first few years ; and 

 with very little assistance ' Lindley and Paxton's Flower Garden.' 

 The excellent botanical articles in the ' Penny Cyclopedia,' down 

 to the letter E., and a treatise on Botany, published by the So- 

 ciety for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, were all from his 

 fertile pen. Besides these, to him are due the greater part of the 

 eighth and the whole of the ninth volume of Sibthorp's ' Flora 

 Grrseca ;' and from 1831 to 1837 he was engaged with Mr. William 

 Hutton on the ' Possil Flora of Grreat Britain.' He was author, 

 moreover, of several valuable works on horticulture, commencing 

 with the ' Outlines of Horticulture,' which was followed in 181:0 

 by the ' Theory of Horticulture,' which was reproduced in America, 

 and translated into almost every European language, and reached 

 a second edition in this country in 1855, when, its title being 

 changed into ' Theory and Practice of Horticulture,' it obtained a 

 much more extensive sale amongst English practical horticul- 

 turists than it had previously enjoyed, notwithstanding its popu- 

 larity in other countries. Nor in this very scanty enumeration of 

 Dr. Lindley's voluminous writings should be omitted his magni- 

 ficent ' Sertum Orchidaceum,' which was completed in 1838, the 

 ' Grenera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants,' between 1830 and 

 1840 ; and a second edition of the latter, under the title of ' Folia 

 Orchidacea,' was commenced in 1852, but never completed, as it 

 ceased to appear in 1859. In the ' Linnean Transactions ' there 

 is a beautifully illustrated paper from him on the Pomacecd ; and 

 a shorter notice in a subsequent year on the " Anatomy of the 

 Roots of Ophrydese." And the Journal of the Society also con- 

 tains several important papers, chiefly on the subject of Orchida- 

 ceous Plants. 



In addition to the foregoing labours, we find Dr. Lindley, in 

 conjunction with the late Sir Joseph Paxton, in the year 1841, 

 projecting and establishing the now well known and deservedly 

 popular ' Grardener's Chronicle,' of which he was editor for twenty- 

 five years, and to whose columns he was a constant and invaluable 

 contributor. 



"With respect to the scientific mode, and the thoroughly honest, 

 manly, and independent spirit in which that journal was conducted 

 by him, it is needless here for me to make any remark. All are 

 well acquainted with it. 



Dr. Lindley was a Member of about sixty Scientific Societies, 



