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of our garden, in order to insure proper general management. 

 Hence it follows, that, as a small garden requires as much gar- 

 dening knowledge as a large one, all gardeners whatever ought 

 to be highly educated and scientific men; and that all ought to 

 have certificates as to their physiological and physical know- 

 ledge. This will raise the gardener in the scale of society ; and, 

 as the love of gardening and agriculture takes the place of the 

 love of dogs and horses in country gentlemen, and the cultiva- 

 tion and improvement of a man's own estate or farm, affords 

 him a deeper interest than hunting or shooting, driving or 

 gambling, the enjoyments of gardening and farming will be 

 more highly prized, and the professions of gardener and of 

 farmer will be more respected. Whoever will give himself the 

 trouble of comparing what passes at the meetings and exhibi- 

 tions of the provincial horticultural societies with what was 

 transacted at similar meetings ten years ago, will be convinced 

 that such a change is gradually taking place. 



Obituary. — Among the eminent men connected with botany 

 and gardening who have died in course of the year are, the 

 celebrated Jussieu, the founder of the natural system of 

 botany ; Deleuze, the historian of the introduction of orna- 

 mental plants into European gardens ; Richard Cunningham, 

 the colonial botanist at Sydney ; and Dr. Hosack of New York, 

 the founder of the Elgin Botanic Garden, in the neighbourhood 

 of that city. Besides these, we have lost Sir John Sinclair, one 

 of the greatest agricultural and economical writers that has ever 

 appeared, and an active-minded and benevolent man ; and the 

 Rev. Henry Berry, proprietor and editor of the British Farmer'' s 

 Magazine, and an excellent judge of live stock. Among the 

 practical gardeners who have died during the last year may 

 be mentioned, Mr. Malcolm, Mr. Young of Epsom, and Mr. 

 Falla of Gateshead, all eminent nurserymen. Some further 

 particulars respecting the death of the lamented Douglas, pro- 

 posals for erecting a monument to his memory, and a biogra- 

 phical notice of him in three languages, will be found in the 

 present Volume. We are happy to find that the intention of 

 erecting a monument to the memory of this eminent botanical 

 collector, to whom gardening and botany are so much indebted, 

 has excited the sympathy of gardeners both at home and abroad. 

 No very large sum will be raised; because the subscriptions, 

 though numerous, are limited to very small sums ; and it is not 

 to be supposed that the same exertions will be made to erect a 

 monument, as would have been done if Douglas had left a wife 

 and family to be provided for, or, indeed, any one dependent on 

 him. Enough, however, will be collected to show the respect 

 in which his memory is held ; and to do this has been our great 

 object in furthering the subscription, both at home and abroad, 



