408 Death of Mr. Loudon. 



and finally, in 1843, he published his work on Cemeteries, the last se- 

 parate work he ever wrote. In this list, many minor productions of 

 Mr. Loudon's pen have necessarily been omitted ; but it may be men- 

 tioned, that he contributed to the Encyclopcedia Britannica and Brande's 

 Dictionary of Science ; and that he published numerous supplements, 

 from time to time, to his various works. 



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

 cumstances as Mr. Loudon. Many years ago, when he came first to 

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

 which disabled him for two years, and ended in an anchylosed knee and 

 a contracted left arm. In the year 1820, whilst compiling the Encyclo- 

 pcedia of Gardening, he had another severe attack of rheumatism ; and 

 the following year, being recommended to go to Brighton to get sham- 

 pooed in Mahommed's Baths, his right arm was there broken near the 

 shoulder, and it never properly united. Notwithstanding this, he con- 

 tinued to write with his right hand till 1825, when the 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 by the anxiety attending on that most costly 

 and laborious of all his works, the Arboretum Britannicum, which has un- 

 fortunately not yet paid itself. He died at last of disease of the lungs, 

 after suffering severely about three months ; and he retained all the 

 clearness and energy of his mind to the last. 



His labours as a landscape-gardener are too numerous to be detailed 

 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 affec- 

 tionate in all his relations of son, husband, father, and brother ; and 

 he never hesitated to sacrifice pecuniary considerations to what he con- 

 sidered his tluty. That he was always most anxious to promote the 

 welfare of gardeners, the volumes of this Magazine bear ample witness ; 

 and he laboured not only to improve their professional knowledge, and 

 to increase their temporal comforts, but to raise their moral and in- 

 tellectual character. 



