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these  trees  were  growing  , at  a  place  called  the  Menagerie, 
a  lovely  grove  situate  at- the  west  end  of  the  park  ;  but  the 
largest  and  finest  of  them  were  blown  down  long  subsequent 
to  Loudon’s  visit.  Juniperus  virginiana,  or  Red  Cedar, 
60  years  planted,  44ft  hi^r,  1ft  9in  in  diameter.  Taxodium 
distichum,  47ft  high,  diameter  of  trunk  2ft  Sin,  and  head  24ft. 
This  tree  has  very  much  growm,  and  is  a  magnificent  specimen 
of  its  kind.  Thuja  orientalis,  60  years  planted,  31ft  high. 
Pinus  strobus,  60  years  planted,  60ft  high.  Other  trees  also 
disabled  him  for  two  years,  and  ended  in  a  perpetual 
anchylosed  knee  and  a  contracted  left  arm.  Soon  after  this 
he  had  his  right'  arm  broken  twice,  and  was  obliged 
eventually  to  have  it  amputated,  but  not  before  a'  general 
break  up  of  his  frame  had  commenced.  A  thumb  and  two 
fingers  of  his  left  hand  had  been  rendered  useless.  His 
constitution  was  finally  undermined  by  the  anxiety  attending 
on  that  most  costly  and  laborious  of  all  his  works,  the 
“Arboretum  Britannicum.”  No  man  deserved  more  of  the 
EPIDfCNDRUM  LINDLEYANUM,  FORMERLY  NAMED  BARKERIA  LINDLEYANA. 
mentioned  are  Ailantus  glandulosa,  Liriodendron  tulipifera, 
Liquidamber  styraciflua,  &c. 
Whilst  alluding  to  Loudon  in  reference  to  these  trees,  it 
might  be  interesting  to  some  of  those  young  gardeners  who 
have  favoured  us  with  their  presence  here  this  evening,  to 
give  a  short  sketch  of  this  very  extraordinary  man,  who  is 
the  more  interesting  to  us  on  account,  I  believe,  of  his  having 
laid  out  the  now  famous  Birmingham  Botanic  Gardens.  It 
makes  some  of  us  feel  that  when  walking  through  those 
beautiful  gardens  that  we  are  treading  on  real  classical 
horticultural  grounds.  No  man,  says  one  of  his  biographers, 
has  ever  written  so  much  under  such  adverse  circumstances 
as  Mr.  Loudon.  In  1803,  when  he  first  came  to  England,  he 
had  a  severe  attack  of  inflammatory  rheumatism,  which 
I  horticultural  world  than  did  Mr.  Loudon,  for  much  though 
1  his  works  inspired  and  improved  those  gardeners  who  took 
i  pains  to  read  them,  yet  the  whole  drift  of  his  Herculean 
I  labours  went  out  in,  and  for  the  interest  of,  the  landed  pro¬ 
prietors  of  Great  and  of  Greater  Britain.  The  titles  of  some 
of  his  works  are  as  under,  viz.  :  — “  The  Encyclopedia  of 
Gardening,”  “  Arboretum  Britannicum,”  “  Encyclopedia  of 
Cottage,  Farm,  and  Villa  Architecture,”  “  Encyclopedia  of 
Trees  and  Shrubs,”  “  Encyclopedia  of  Agriculture,”  besides 
which  he  edited  the  “  Gardeners’  Magazine,”  and  much  more 
of  which  we  have  no  particulars,  and  made  many  journeys  to 
the  Continent  in  search  of  information  and  material  for  his 
great  works. 
(To  be  concluded.) 
