Intelligent horticulture has suffered a severe loss in this gentleman, whose death occurred on the 23d of March, suddenly, at his residence at West Grove. He was well versed in those sciences that had relation to agriculture and horticulture, and his whole life was devoted to the endeavor to make this knowledge of practical value to the arts he loved. He was a leading officer of the Pennsylvania Fruit Grower's Society - later the Pennsylvania Horticultural Association, and indeed one of its founders. He was one of those rare men, who was "never too old to learn" - indeed, if he had any weakness, it was too strong a feeling that what he had yet to learn was far in excess of what he had achieved, and this modesty prevented him from being as useful as one of his eminent acquirements might have been.