We understand that so spontaneous and general has been the desire that some lasting memorial of this eminent horticulturist should be formed, that a most influential committee has been convened to take the preliminary steps for carrying out what seems to be the general wish of all who take any interest in that department of natural science, in which he stood as a star of the first magnitude; and we have no doubt the result will be worthy of the nation, as well as of the memory of him whom it is intended to commemorate.