This graceful memoir is concluded in the present number, and doubtless has interested most of our readers. Mr. Loudon's career was a most useful one; in respect to its close, it resembled Sir Walter Scott's; he was ruined pecuniarily, however, by his own publication of the great work, the Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum, which was issued, on his own account, at an outlay of fifty thousand dollars; but it sold so well, that only thirteen thousand remained to be paid at the end of 1841, and he died in 1843. The work has since sold extensively,-and his debts were paid.

In industry, Mr. Loudon will compare favorably with Sir Walter; he had four periodicals, viz: The Gardener's, Natural History, and Architectural Magazines, and the Arboretum, which was published in monthly numbers, going on at the same time, and, to produce these at the proper time, he literally worked night and day, suffering much pain, and writing with two fingers of his left hand. Never did any man possess more energy and determination; whatever he began he pursued with enthusiasm, and carried out, notwithstanding obstacles that would have discouraged any ordinary person.

His labors as a landscape-gardener are too numerous to be detailed, but he always considered the most important was laying out the arboretum so nobly presented by Joseph Strutt, M. P., to the town of Derby.