DEATH OF J. C. LOUDON, Esq. 
It is our most painful duty this month to record the death of one who was well 
known to the educated world in general, but to the Gardening world in par- 
ticular ; and who devoted a life of indefatigable industry to the advancement of 
Horticultural pursuits. 
The death of Mr. Loudon, which took place at his house in Bayswater, on 
Thursday the 14th inst., will be long and severely felt by the horticultural world; 
and whether we consider his standard works on Agriculture, Gardening, Botany, 
&c, or his periodical publications, we must pronounce him the most extensive 
author and compiler of his day. He has left behind him no British author who 
has collected and published a greater mass of useful information. 
Through a life of most unwearied and persevering exertion, he devoted his 
time and talents to the amelioration of the condition of the humbler classes ; for the 
good effects of his Encyclopaedia of Cottage Architecture have not only been felt 
in Britain, but also in America and Australia. He revived that spirit for horticul- 
tural pursuits, which had slumbered for years ; and created a new era in gardening 
by his " Gardener's Magazine." His last great work, the " Arboretum Britan- 
nicum," is alone sufficient to assure his fame. He may be said, in the most literal 
sense of the phrase, to have " trimmed the midnight lamp ; " for he laboured nearly 
day and night for the advancement of science, and wasted his constitution in the 
pursuit of his favourite studies : — yet fortune frowned upon him ! 
As a man of independent spirit and enlarged views, he was rarely surpassed. 
As a man of industry, he had few equals. As a friend, his attachment was 
warm and sincere ; while in the domestic circle he was most amiable, polite, and 
agreeable. He retained to the very last the full use of those faculties which 
he had so long exercised for the benefit of mankind. 
In the noble art of landscape gardening, his labours are known throughout a 
considerable part of the country. He was frequently consulted, and has generally 
been happily successful in carrying out his designs. Like most professors of the 
same art, he had favourite fancies, which he sometimes advocated, perhaps, too 
warmly ; but the majority of his views were sound and consistent ; and he had 
acquired immense experience in the details of the pursuit. 
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