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wrote, "no room in the United States for another magazine of 

 like character." After living for three years the magazine was 

 discontinued, owing to lack of sufficient support. Relieved of 

 the burden of publication, Scott continued his literary labors 

 by writing for the prominent agricultural and horticultural 

 papers of the day. Scott also did work of a more permanent 

 character, and the "Year Book of the Farm and Garden for 

 i860," published by A. M. Spangler, was written almost in its en- 

 tirety by him. Scott's style was good and what he wrote was 

 illumined by knowledge outside of that required in the imme- 

 diate object, so that, while thoroughly reliable, his work possessed 

 in addition a quality which few of his contemporaries could equal. 

 Scott carried on his literary work while he acted professionally 

 as landscape gardener and as agent for scientific magazines and 

 books. 



About 1857 Scott left Philadelphia and became associated 

 with Elwanger & Barry at Rochester, N. Y., continuing with 

 this firm and taking an active part in the New York annual 

 horticultural conventions until about i860, when he returned to 

 Philadelphia to take charge as head gardener of a large estate. 

 Near this estate, and on the west bank of the Schuylkill river, 

 near Manayunk, Scott discovered the fern which has become in- 

 separably connected with his name. 



Scott's spleenwort was first exhibited at a meeting of the 

 ''Pennsylvania Horticultural Society," at Philadelphia, and Scott 

 himself wrote a description of it which appeared in the Gar- 

 deners' Monthly of September, 1865, three years after the fern 

 was found. 



Throughout Scott's life in America his work was at intervals 

 interrupted by sickness resulting from an injury he received in 

 childhood. With increasing years and consequent increasing lack 

 of resistance, these visitations became more frequent and more 

 serious. He died June 24, 1877, at Harrisburg. Pa., in his 51st 

 year, an immeasurable loss to American Horticulture. 



