Identifier: horticulturistjo12alba (find matches)
Title: The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste
Year: 1846 (1840s)
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Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : Luther Tucker
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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cy. o . .=>-^^v«509^ A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGSOF JOHN CLAUDIUS LOUDON. BY HIS WIDOW. JoFiN Claudius Loudon was born on the 8th of April, 1*183, at Cambuslang,in Lanarkshire, the residence of his mothers only sister, herself the mother ofDr. Claudius Buchanan (the author of a work entitled Christian liesearches inAsia), whose labors in India, in attempting to convert and instruct the Hindoos,have made his name celebrated in the religious world. Mr. Loudon was the eldestof a large family; and his father, wlio was a farmer, residing at Kerse Hall, nearGogar, about Gve miles from Edini)urgh, being a man of enlightened mind anderior information, was very anxious that he should have every possible adn his education. Strange to say, however, Mr. Loudon, when a boy, thou

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