Amateur horticulture, loses a rare lover of gardening in Dr. George Thomas of Whitford, Chester County, Pa., whose death occurred recently in his eightieth year. He was especially fond of rare trees and shrubs, of which his grounds contained a fine collection.

Though a regularly educated physician, he never practiced, but with abundant means he lived a comparatively retired life, doing good to every one about him with whom he came in contact. When on his death-bed, and in a delirium from which he never recovered, he exclaimed, " Let us go out and plant some trees." These were his last words.