This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V25", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
Death has been busy of late among the correspondents of the Gardeners' Monthly. We have still another loss to deplore. Under the signature of B. or W. G. B., we have had many an interesting sketch from the pen of W. G. Burk, of Media, Pa. He was born in Delaware Co., Pa., in January, 1804, near where he died on the 28th of April last. He was by turns school-master, physician, druggist, and finally retired to a farm twenty years ago. He was fond of horticulture and most of the Natural Sciences, and especially devoted to botanical pursuits, a taste he possessed in common with his brother Isaac, well known for his devotion to the building of the famous herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
 
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