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John Claudius Loudon

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Gender Male
Death181 years ago
Date of birth April 8,1783
Zodiac sign Aries
Born Cambuslang
United Kingdom
Date of died December 14,1843
DiedLondon
United Kingdom
BuriedKensal Green Cemetery, London, United Kingdom
Spouse Jane C. Loudon
Job Architect
Journalist
Landscape architect
Plant Biologist
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Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum
The Suburban Gardener, and Villa Companion
The Horticulturist
On the Laying Out, Planting, and Managing of Cemeteries: And on the Improvement of Churchyards. With Sixty Engravings
A treatise on forming, improving and managing country residences : and on the choice of situations appropriate to every class of puchasers ; in all which the object in view is to unite in a better manner than as hitherto been done, a taste founded in nature with economy and utility, in constructing or improving mansions, and other rural buildings, so as to combine architectural fitness with picturesque effect . . . . 2
Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm and Villa Architecture and Furniture
Remarks on the Construction of Hothouses: Also, a Review of the Various Methods of Building Them in Foreign Countries as Well as in England
Magazine of Natural History;
The Green- House Companion: Comprising a General Course of Green-House and Conservatory Practice Throughout the Year
Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement
Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum, Or, the Trees and Shrubs of Britain, Native and Foreign, Hardy and Half-hardy, Pictorially and Botanically Delineated, and Scientifically and Popularly Described: In Eight Volumes
In Search of English Gardens: The Travels of John Claudius Loudon and His Wife Jane
Loudon's Hortus Britannicus, a catal. of all the plants indigenous, cultivated in, or introduced to Britain
The Different Modes of Cultivating the Pine-apple: From Its First Introduction Into Europe to the Late Improvements of T. A. Knight, Esq
Self- Instruction for Young Gardeners, Foresters, Bailiffs, Land-Stewards, and Farmers: With a Memoir of the Author
Observations on the Formation and Management of Useful and Ornamental Plantations: On the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening; and on Gaining and Embanking Land from Rivers Or the Sea
Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain
An Encyclopaedia of Plants
An Encyclopædia of Agriculture: Comprising the Theory and Practice of the Valuation, Transfer, Laying Out, Improvement, and Management of Landed Property; and the Cultivation and Economy of the Animal and Vegetable Productions of Agriculture
Loudon's Hortus Britannicus
First Additional Supplement to the Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture: Bringing the Work Down to 1842
The Magazine of Natural History, and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, and Meteorology
The Villa Gardener: Comprising the Choice of a Suburban Villa Residence; the Laying Out, Planting, and Culture of the Garden and Grounds; and the Management of the Villa Farm, Including the Dairy and Poultry-yard . . .
The Green- house Companion: Comprising a General Course of Green-house and Conservatory Practice Throughout the Year; a Natural Arrangement of All the Green-house Plants in Cultivation; with a Descriptive Catalogue of the Most Desirable to Form a Collection . . . Also, the Proper Treatment of Flowers in Rooms, and Bulbs in Water Glasses
An Encyclopedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture V1 (1839)
An Encyclopedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture V2 (1839)
The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement; Volume 2
Architectural Magazine, and Journal of Improvement in Architecture, Building, and Furnishing, and in the Various Arts and Trades Therewith;
Engravings, with descriptions [by J. C. Loudon] illustrative of the difference between the modern style of rural architecture and the improvement of scenery, and that displayed in A treatise on country residences, and practised by mr. Loudon
The Green- House Companion: Comprising a General Course of Green-House and Conservatory Practice Throughout the Year; A Natural Arrangement of All the Green-House Plants in Cultivation; With a Descriptive Catalogue of the Most Desirable to Form a Collectio
Hints on the Formation of Gardens and Pleasure Grounds: With Designs, in Various Styles of Rural Embellishment: Comprising Plans for Laying Out Flower, Fruit, and Kitchen Gardens, and the Arrangement of Glass-houses, Hot Walls, and Stoves . . . To which is Added, a Priced Catalogue of Fruit and Forest Trees, Shrubs, and Plants, Adapted to Villa Grounds . . .
The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement; Volume 7
The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement Volume V. 4 (1828)
The Architectural Magazine and Journal of Improvement in Architecture, Building and Furnishing. . . first Published in London, Longman, 1834
Magazine of Natural History and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology and Meteorology; Volume 2 New Series
The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement; V. 14 1838
Loudon Furniture Designs: From the Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farmhouse and Villa Architecture and Furniture, 1839
The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement Volume V. 1 New Ser
The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement Volume V. 5 (1829)
The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement Volume (1828); Volume 4
The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement Volume New Ser. , V. 2 (1836)
The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement Volume V. 3 New Ser
The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement Volume New Ser; Volume 3
The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphry Repton, Esq: Being His Entire Works on These Subjects. A New Ed. : with an Historical and Scientific Introduction, a Systematic Analysis, a Biographical Notice, Notes and a Copious Alphabetical Index
The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement; V. 8 1832
An Encyclopedia of Plants: Comprising the Specific Culture, History, Application in the Arts, and Every Other Desirable Particular Respecting All the Plants Indigenous, Cultivated In, Or Introduced to Britain: Combining Much of the Information Contained in a Species Plantarum, a Historia Plantarum, a Grammar of Botany, and a Dictionary of Botany and Vegetable Culture
Hints on the Formation of Gardens and Pleasure Grounds
The Suburban Horticulturist, Or, An Attempt to Teach the Science and Practice of the Culture and Management of the Kitchen, Fruit, & Forcing Garden to Those who Have Had No Previous Knowledge Or Practice in These Departments of Gardening
The Magazine of Natural History, and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, and Meteorology, Volume 4
The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement Volume New Ser. , (1836); Volume 2
The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement Volume New Ser; Volume 1
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John Claudius Loudon Life story


John Claudius Loudon was a Scottish botanist, garden designer and author. He was the first to use the term arboretum in writing to refer to a garden of plants, especially trees, collected for the purpose of scientific study.

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