OUtiiary. — Notice to Landscape-Gardeners. 537 



Larches, on the 28th of September. On the 2d of October his disease in- 

 creased so rapidly as to occasion great alarm, and on the 5th all hope was 

 extinct ; but he evinced an entire cbnfidence in the goodness of an over- 

 ruling Providence, tempered with a pious resignation to His will ; and, while 

 praising and magnifying the Lord, his features were illuminated with the 

 ardent.desire of a speedy translation to those realms where pain and sorrow 

 are no more. 



Besides his Botanical Arrangement of British Plants, Dr. Withering gave 

 to the world An Account of the Cure of the Plague by Olive Oil, and 

 A Prevention of the dreadful Malady of Hydrophobia. His application of 

 the Digitalis to the disease of dropsy is well known, and forms quite an era 

 m this department of medical science. Its application to cases of insanity 

 is by no means so generally known, though it should seem desirable that the 

 flxculty would attentively consider the facts which the Doctor has recorded 

 of such cases. 



Art. X. Obituary. 



Died. — At Mavis Grove, on the 25d of September, Euphemia Todcf, 

 aged 74, relict of John Jackson, who was gardener to the late Colonel and 

 Mrs. Depeyster twenty-two years. {Dumfries Courier.) 



Art. XL Notice to Landscape-Gardeners. 



The gardens laid out by tlie late M. Sckell, at Munich (p. 493.), together 

 with his writings, which we shall translate and publish early in spring, have 

 suggested to us a scheme which, we think, will tend to advance landscape- 

 gardening in England, and certainly be for the benefit of landscape-gardeners 

 there and in other countries. It is, to publish a specimen of the style of 

 laying out and planting the grounds of a countiy-residence, at present in 

 use by all the principal artists now practising in Europe ; or by as many of 

 them as, in consequence of this notice, shall think fit to send us plans. 

 We have already received several for France and Germany, and expect 

 more ; and we hereby invite the garden-artists of Britain, each to prepare 

 for us a working plan, with a few square inches in any part of it finished, 

 merely for the sake of showing their style of finishing, and particularly 

 indicating the distribution of the different species of trees. This can be 

 done most minutely and completely in the description which must neces- 

 saril}' accompany the plan, by numbering the indications on the plan, and 

 writing the names of the trees after the numbers in the descriptive paper. 

 The size of the plates which we intend to publish will be 2ift. by 5^ ft. 

 We should prefer the plan of some place actually laid out by the artist; 

 but, if this should be inconvenient, he may give the plan of an imaginary 

 place, and therein embody the whole beau ideal of his taste and knowledge 

 in landscape-gardening. All the plans must be sent by the middle of 

 January next, as none will be received later than the first of February, 

 and every artist who supplies one will be furnished with a copy of the work 

 gratis. The plans to be addressed (carriage paid) to the Conductor, at the 

 Publishers'. We hope that, among other friends, Messrs. Lin^ of Berlin, 

 Main, Morris, Major, M'Leish, Cormack, Sinclair, Fraser, &c. &c., will 

 comply with this request. — Cond. Nuremberg, Nov, 12. 



