30G THE COTTAGE 
Death lias been busy again among the gardening 
community. In tbe past month be singled out two 
men well distinguished among us in tlieir peculiar 
departments. 
Mr. Clement Hoare, one of the most enthusiastic 
cultivators of the grape vine, died on the 18th of 
August, aged GO. Mr. Hoare, we believe, w r as a school¬ 
master near Chichester, where, as a relaxation, he 
cultivated the vine, and collected a large and valuable 
assortment. “ The result,” to use his own words, “ of 
many years’ diligent investigation and patient obser¬ 
vation,” was published during the year 1835 in his 
“Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Grape 
Vine on Open Walls,” and of which work it is not 
too much to say that it is the best that has appeared 
on the subject. That which was agreeable and pro¬ 
fitable as an amusement became ruinous when adopted 
as a commercial pursuit. He moved in 1841 to Shirley, 
near Southampton, and, having taken thither all his 
vines from Chichester, he endeavoured to derive an 
income from the sale of vine plants. In 1843 we 
sought from him some information relative to the cul¬ 
tivation of the vine under glass, and thus wisely did 
he answer us :—“ I am about to commence a series 
of experiments—experiments which will, I expect, 
occupy a space of not less than three yearsand he 
proceeded to add, among other observations, that until 
those experiments were completed he “ must abstain 
from giving any directions relative to the culture of 
the vine in this manner.” Unfortunately for his 
better fame he did not abide by this resolution with 
regard to other points of culture. Misfortunes came 
upon him, and he sought for aid in publishing his 
work upon “ Planting and Managing the Roots of 
Vines,” in which he promulged a method of grow¬ 
ing them in hollow pillars—a method which at once 
met with the condemnation it merited. Soon after 
Mr. Hoare became insolvent, his “ Vineyard” was 
broken up, and we fear that, heart-subdued, he has 
sunk before his time into the grave. 
Mr. David Bishop is the other horticulturist to 
whose death we have alluded, and to our contempo¬ 
rary, The North British Agriculturist, we are indebted 
for this biographical notice :— 
“ At Malone, near Belfast, on the 4th August, Mr. 
David Bishop, in his 61st year, a victim to the pre¬ 
vailing epidemic. Of the father of Mr. Bishop we 
have no recollection, farther than that he was con¬ 
sidered a man of very superior attainments, and con¬ 
siderably in advance of his brethren at the time in 
which he lived. Of his family, there only now re¬ 
mains one daughter, still resident in the village of 
New Scone, ancl one son, Mr. Thomas Bishop, long 
gardener, and for many years factor, upon the estate 
of Methven, a property perhaps improved more by 
his judicious management than any other in Scot¬ 
land. Mr. Thomas Bishop is well known to the 
agricultural and horticultural world by his numer¬ 
ous essays in various departments of these sciences. 
To him Scottish agriculture is deeply indebted for 
improvements in the artificial grasses, as well as for 
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his many and successful experiments upon the potato. 
Gardening is indebted to him for many of our mo¬ 
dern improvements, and, in an especial degree, for 
the pains taken in instructing those young men placed 
under his direction, some of whom have long not 
only been a credit to their kind-hearted preceptor, 
but also ornaments to society. Mr. Thomas Bishop 
is one of our best and most energetic British botanists, 
and it is with much pleasure and gratitude that we 
have an opportunity of publicly acknowledging that 
our first lessons in botany were received at his hands. 
As an arboriculturist, he is also esteemed one of the 
first and best, and the pinetum planted by him in the 
moor of Methven will be a monument to his memory 
long after ‘ he is gathered to his fathers.’ Mr. Wm. 
Bishop, another brother, was an excellent gardener, 
and died at an early age while assisting the late 
eminent Mr. Jenkins in laying out the Regent’s Park, 
near London. He was the first who successfully 
propagated the camellia by cuttings. Mr. David 
Bishop, the subject of our present notice, was the 
youngest of six sons of Robert Bishop, who was 49 
years planter and gardener to the Mansfield family, 
at Comlongan Castle, in Dumfriesshire, and Scone, 
Perthshire. He served his apprenticeship to his older 
brother Thomas, at Methven Castle, who was then 
forming a collection of British alpine plants, which 
seems to have given him a taste for these plants, 
which never left him. He wrought successively under 
Messrs. John Mitchel, gardener at Moncrieff House, 
and Robert Miller, gardener at Dupplin Cast’s ; both 
of whom were devoted to botanical science, and ad¬ 
mirers of flora. Afterwards, he went to London, and 
wrought for some years there, when he obtained the 
situation of gardener to Lord Bagot, Blythfield, Staf¬ 
fordshire ; and some years afterwards to Lord Elgin, 
Broomhall, Scotland. On leaving his service, he took 
a season to botanise on the mountains in 8 cotland. 
He was a day and a night alone on the highest of 
the Cairngorums. Went again the second time on 
foot to London, and dedicated his time to literary 
pursuits, and for a time acted as an amanuensis to 
the late Mr. Loudon, by whom he was much respected. 
As the author of ‘ Casual Botany,’ one of the few 
original botanical works that has issued from the 
British press in modem times, he has displayed an 
intimate acquaintance with the subject treated on, 
and adopted a style in composition at once clear and 
conspicuous, while, at the same time, it is unincum¬ 
bered with those technicalities which too often tend 
to bewilder rather than instruct. With this work 
he travelled the greater part of England and Ireland, 
visiting the mount ains on his way in search of plants, 
having discovered many new species and varieties, 
and fixing the habitats of others seldom to be met 
with, and thereby becoming acquainted with many 
scientific friends. About 1830, Mr. Bishop was ap¬ 
pointed curator of the Botanic Gardens at Belfast, 
and upon resigning that charge took ground at Ma¬ 
lone, near that city, where he has since resided, and 
amused himself in collecting rare British plants, in 
the pursuit of which, we believe, helms perambulated 
every county in the United Kingdom, performing the 
whole as a pedestrian. His botanical discoveries 
have been important, and many new habitats has he 
given for many of our rarer plants, more especially 
ferns, with which interesting family he was well ac¬ 
quainted. The most extraordinary of his discoveries, 
we think, was that of a very singular form assumed 
by Juncus effusus in the wilds of Connemara, a plant 
before undetected by any botanist, and by him kindly 
presented to us. This extraordinary plant was exbi- 
