This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V29", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
This young lady was getting to be quite famous in Europe as a flower painter, and was particularly well known by the beautiful Roses painted for the Journal des Roses, She died in Paris on the 8th of July, in her twenty-sixth year.
Thos. U. Walter - the architect of the Capitol building at Washington, and other famous works, whose death at 84 has recently been announced, was fond of horticulture, and at one time had a suburban residence with beautifully laid out grounds at Germantown.
 
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