Horticulture - especially Western horticulture - mourns the loss of this distinguished pioneer, although he had passed the allotted term of human life. His death occurred at his home at Princeton, Illinois, on the 6th of February. When he first settled there the country was a bleak wilderness, and there were scientific men not a few who, finding no trees on the prairies, gave abundant reasons why it was impossible that arborescent vegetation should ever grow there. It was for men like Bryant to show the possibilities of the impossible, and to-day, by his courage and labors, and those of his contemporaries, we have forgotten the prophecies which made experiment foolishness. He issued a work finally which told not only how to raise forest trees in that part of the world for shelter and ornament, but for profit also. He was brother of the great poet, and, like him, had a keen sensibility to the voice of nature, with whom he held close communion in all her various forms, especially in connection with plants and flowers.