Following close on the death of the admirable Secretary of the New York Horticultural Society, Pennsylvania meets with a similar loss in the death of Secretary Harrison. He departed but a few weeks before, in excellent health and spirits, to pay a brief visit to his children in Europe, and died of inflammation on his return trip, in his sixty-sixth year. He was among the earlier contributors to our magazine, the many excellent papers under the signature of " Novice," having been from his pen. At the meeting of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, held immediately on the receipt of the sad news, Mr. ThomasMeehan, the Corresponding Secretary, paid the following tribute to his memory: in memoriam. Though in the past, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society has been called upon to record the expression of its losses, it has surely never experienced a greater than by the death of its late Secretary and Treasurer, Apollos Walcott Harrison. For a quarter of a century he had been its brains and moving spirit, punctiliously true to his trusts, making host? of new friends, and never losing an old one.

He joined the Society on the 16th of October, 1880, entered at once into actual service to aid the Society, and became its Secretary in March, 1861. In December, 1873, he was elected Treasurer also.

He was born at Hartford, Connecticut, and was a descendant of the Harrisons famous in English history, in connection with the struggle of Cromwell against royalty; and on his mother's side with the Walcotts, another old English family with numerous distinguished representatives in the New England States. Previous to the Rebellion, he was one of the leading perfumers of our city, with a very large business all over the Union, but especially in the Southern States. Though with some aid from good schools in his younger days, he was, in a great measure, self-educated. He had a knowledge of Latin, Greek, Italian, French and German languages, chiefly through his own unaided efforts. His chosen profession in early life was a civil engineer, and he assisted in laying out the earliest railroads in Connecticut. He was passionately fond of art, and was among the first, if not the first, to introduce chromo-lithography into this country, employing his own lithographer in connection with the perfumery business. This fondness for his art has been inherited by his sons, they taking rank at present among the most eminent. Besides these, he leaves a married daughter, Mrs. Fulton - also an artist of superior merit.

It was returning from a visit to the sons, residing in Europe, that death overtook him. He died on board the British steamer "Queen," on the 22d of August, and after the failure of efforts to preserve his body, was buried at sea on the 23d.

Without ostentation, Mr. Harrison was a quiet but hard worker in numerous benevolent enterprises, public and private, and the excellent services he rendered during the Sanitary Fair and the Centennial, are still greatfully remembered by many.

In view of his many virtues, public and private, and as a faint expression of the great loss to this Society, it is, therefore Resolved, That in the death of its beloved Secretary, the Society mourns one of its most efficient officers and best friends, and unites with his family in sincere sympathy with their distress at the loss of an affectionate father.