Life of John Claudius Loudon his wife
Early life London
Country Residences Ferm
ornee Russia Loss of
fortune Hothouses France and Italy Gardeners
Magazine Marriage Birmingham Scotland Arboretum Suburban
Gardener Cemeteries Last illness Death Anecdotes Elegy
Birmingham Botanic Garden
Immediately after our marriage, Mr. Loudon began to rewrite the
Encyclopedia of Gardening, which was published in the course
of the year 1831. On the 1st of October, 1830, he published the
first part of a work, in atlas folio, entitled Illustrations of
Landscape Gardening and Garden Architecture; but, from
the very expensive nature of the work, and the limited number of
subscribers, he found it necessary to discontinue it, and. it did
not proceed beyond the third part, which appeared in 1833. In the
beginning of the year 1831 he had an application to lay out a
botanic garden at Birmingham, and he
agreed to do it merely on the payment of his expenses. On this
occasion I accompanied him; and, after spending about six weeks in
Birmingham, (which, though it is my native town, I had not seen for
several years) we made a tour through the North of England,
visiting the lakes in Cumberland and Westmoreland. It was at
Chester that we saw a copy of Mr. Paxton's horticultural Register, the
first rival to The Gardener's Magazine, which at the time we
were married produced £750 a year; but which gradually
decreased from the appearance of the Horticultural Register,
till the period of Mr. London's death, immediately after which it
was given up.
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