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from his close observation and fertile brain, from which hundreds of your 

 readers are now reaping the benefit without knowing to whom they were 

 first indebted for such knowledge. 



Although like most business men he had reverses, yet he successfully 

 weathered them all, and two years ago, having amassed a fortune, he sold 

 ont his immense rose growing establishment in Flushing, N. Y., to a stock 

 company. — P. H., in A?nerican Florist. 



Tribute to the memory of John Henderson, prepared by C. L. 

 Allen, and adopted by the New York Florists' Club. 



Another good man has gone. Another page in history has been filled with 

 the record of a noble life, closing with the tribute we now place upon his 

 tomb. John Henderson's name is imperishably written in the history of 

 American floriculture, and as indelibly engraved on the hearts of all who 

 truly knew him. Cradled in the lap of wealth, endowed by nature with a 

 love for the beautiful and good, educated at the fountain of English learn- 

 ing, visited in manhood's brightest years by the vicissitudes of fortune, he 

 came among us poor but respected, and has departed from us rich and re- 

 spected, bequeathing to his many friends gifts by example of honor, integri- 

 ty, manly pride and virtue. His peculiarly fine moral qualities, his single- 

 minded, straightforward manner, and his genial kindness, together with his 

 confidence in his fellow men, were adorned by rare intelligence and high 

 moral culture. 



In his intercourse with his fellow men he was never affectionate, rarely 

 confiding, but always superior. He could not freely mingle with the 

 masses, because he scorned petty ways and many of the social customs that 

 strongly tend to destroy individual worth and to undermine character. He 

 loved quietness, pure thought, pleasant associations, the endearments of 

 home, and abhorred every manner of vice and hypocrisy. When he pro- 

 fessed friendship, he meant pure friendship, free from dross and unalloyed 

 with selfishness. 



While his ambition in his business relations was only limited by his 

 strength, he was most temperate in his desires, his strongest being duty to 

 his family, simplicity of life, unostentation, and to be associated in every 

 good work with severely candid, unselfish, honest men. 



Modesty was one of the virtues that adorned his character. While his 

 mind was richly stored with that which was beautiful, true and good, with 

 practical knowledge, it could not reveal itself except to his small circle of 

 choice friends. With strangers he had no communion. To the general 

 public, or to a large assemblage, he could not convey his thoughts. 



HENRY SHAW. 



Henry Shaw, the greatest philanthropist who has devoted 

 his talents and wealth to the promotion of botany and horti- 

 culture in the New World, died at his home, St. Louis, in Au- 

 gust. His greatest monument is the Missouri Botanic Gar- 

 den, which is mentioned elsewhere in this volume. To the 

 maintenance and extension of these gardens he left a magni- 



