Peter Henderson, so widely known as a seedsman, gardener and florist, died at his home on Arlington Avenue, Jersey City, on Friday, January 17th, ultimo. Although he had been suffering from an attack of the prevailing influenza, bis illness was not regarded as serious until it turned to pneumonia. On Thursday evening the symptoms became alarming, and within twelve hours from that time he died. He was born in 1823 in the Scotch village of Path Head, near Edinburgh. His father was the land steward of a gentleman in the neighborhood. His early education was obtained in the parish school, where he was successful in obtaining a number of prizes. He was always a close observer and had the faculty of turning his observations to good advantage. He early became interested in botany and the arts associated with it, and before he was eighteen years of age had twice obtained the medals offered by the Botanical Society of Edinburgh for the best herbarium. At sixteen he was apprenticed to a gardener, and before he came to this country at the age of twenty, he had already written for some of the English horticultural publications.

In 1843, with little capital excepting pluck, industry and a strong constitution he came to this country, and entered the employ of Thorburn & Co., Astoria, Long Island. He also worked with the late Robert Buist and Charles Spang of Pittsburgh. By frugality he accumulated a small capital, and in 1847 he began business as a market gardener in Jersey City. He worked hard and was successful, and for upwards of twenty years this was his principal business. He began the cultivation of ornamental plants, and the business became so great that market gardening was gradually given up. A little later he became a seedsman, and this soon proved the most important part of his business; at the time of his death he was accounted the most successful and widely known seedsman in the country. In 1865 the firm of Henderson & Flem-ing began business as seedsmen in Nassau street, and afterward it was moved to the present location in Cortlandt, with the firm name so familiar to all gardeners. He was probably the most widely read on matters pertaining to his business of any writer of his time. His contributions were always welcome to any horticultural publication and his books among the best selling published.

He always retained an affection for his countrymen and gardeners in general, assisting many of them in different ways. He was a busy man, but even those nearest him say they could hardly understand how he ac-complished so much. He was indefatigable in his efforts to extend his business, his sagacity was rare-ly at fault, and his activity and observation were ceaseless. His kindly nature and uniform courtesy endeared him to those who met him, even casually, and have been the inspiration of many a young florist. Having a strong constitution by nature, he rarely suffered from ill health, a circumstance which he himself attributed to his practice of spending some hours in the open air each day, working about his grounds or superintending others. Although careful, he was liberal, and many benefited by his kindness. He leaves a widow, two sons and two daughters: the sentence of the whole nation is that he who is a sloven in his garden is a sloven indeed. The inside of a laborer's house, his habits, his qualities as a workman, and almost his morality, may be judged of from the appearance of bis garden.

If that be neglected, he is, nine times out of ten, a sluggard or a drunkard, or both. - Cobbett, 1826.