496 Obituary. 



are so completely destroyed by the weather as to be quite unfit for use ; 

 consequently no demand for them, with little prospect of any supply for the 

 next month or six weeks. Carrots as yet have come to hand very sparingly. 

 The crop is reported to be much injured by the drought ; they will consequently 

 be scarce throughout the season. Of potatoes we have had to this time a 

 very good supply; but, in consequence of ot^r vegetables being scarce, there 

 has been considerable demand for them at improved prices. The crop in 

 the northern district, from the prevalence of more moisture, is said to be good ; 

 a full supply may be therefore expected ; but, as the crop in the home district 

 is small, they will most likely be in demand at an improvement upon last year's 

 prices, which were very low. The market has been tolerably furnished with 

 fruits of all description of excellent qualities. Pears have been plentiful; of 

 course, all the varieties prevalent at this season. Apples are supplied in 

 abundance, but many of them very small, owing to the trees in many districts 

 being much affected by late frosts and blights. Plums are generally a deficient 

 crop; but the market is now tolerably well supplied from France. We have also 

 had an excellent supply of currants from Holland, by steam : they have come 

 to hand in good condition. Peaches and nectarines are tolerably plentiful at 

 present, as well as pine-apples, grapes, and other forced or wall fruits; the 

 prices, as may be observed by the list, being materially influenced by the 

 qualities of the respective articles. Filberts are supplied in large quan- 

 tities : the crop is reported as being very heavy, the quality excellent, being 

 very free from the grub. Walnuts are a short crop. Grapes upon the open 

 wall will be good from the continued prevalence of fine summer weather: the 

 crop is very great. — G. C. August 18. 1835. 



Art. VI. Obituary. 



Died, July 28., William Forsyth, Esq, F.H.S., of Nottingham Place, Mary- 

 lebone, aged 63 years. Mr. Forsyth was the eldest son of the late royal 

 gardener of that name, known as the author of a Treatise on the Culture and 

 Management of Fruit Trees, 4to, 1805, the most popular work of the kind in 

 the first ten years of the present century. Mr. Forsyth, lately deceased, was 

 the author of a Botanical Nomenclator, Sfc, published in 1794, 8vo; but of no 

 other published work that we are aware of. He was chiefly remarkable for 

 having one of the best horticultural libraries that was perhaps ever formed, and 

 for his bibliographical knowledge, more especially in botanical and horticultural 

 literature. He had for many years occupied himself in preparing a Catalogue 

 Raisonne of Gardening Works, with biographical notices of their authors ; and, 

 had he lived to complete this, it woukl have formed an interesting chrono- 

 logical and bibliographical history of gardening. Mr. Forsyth had also pre- 

 pared, some years ago, an Arboretum Britannicum, a Pomarimn Britannicum, 

 and other works which we have seen in MS. ; but they have been done so 

 many years, that they are in a great measure obsolete. The only manuscript 

 of value which he has left is his Catalogue of Authors ; and that, we trust, will 

 be published by his executors. 



In the preface to the Encyclopcedia of Gardening, and also in the historical 

 part of the Arboretum Britannicum, we have acknowleged our great obligations 

 to Mr. Forsyth for the use of his library, and for a variety of curious historical 

 information, and corrections of names and dates; and we again desire to ac- 

 knowledge our obligations to him, at the same time deploring his loss, not only 

 on this account, but as an excellent man, with whom we had been for many years 

 on terms of friendship. Mr. Forsyth was never married, and has left no near 

 relations in England. He was buried in the family vault, in the old burying- 

 ground in the parish of Chelsea. 



