The sad news respecting the death of Luther Tucker, at Albany, N. Y., recalls to mind one circumstance which the Press has failed to notice. Besides his connection with the Genesee Farmer, The Cultivator and Country Gentleman, he was the founder and first publisher of The Horticulturist. It is true that in familiar his* tory The Horticulturist has been frequently referred to as "Douming's Horticulturist" and entire credit given him for its origination and possession of the name, and its publication. The facts are otherwise. Mr. Downing was merely the editor. Mr. Tucker, as publisher and proprietor, started it, engaged Mr. Downing as editor, paid him a stated salary to write for it, which continued until 1852, when, immediately following Mr. Down* ing's death, The Horticulturist was disposed of to Mr. James Vick, of Rochester. It is a singular circumstance, that of all the publishers and editors ever connected with its history and management, only its first editor and first publisher have departed, and to think so far apart - twenty-one years. All the others are living, and occupying spheres of usefulness and prominence. Mr. Tucker, then, was an eminent pioneer in horticulture as well as agriculture.

He founded what is to-day the most respected and influential of all our weekly Agricultural Journals, and in like manner he was the founder of what is now the oldest in repu-tation and continued existence of all the Horticultural Journals.

Mr. Tucker was a person of quiet ways, but pleasant disposition, able to agreeably meet, welcome and entertain visitors; good-hearted at home, and with good mo tives to help the public at large. He was eminently practical. We have never known an editor so capable of eliciting from correspondents matter which contained so much practical experience, and his Journal was a remarkable instance of condensation of the best and soundest thought upon rural subjects. Declining health in late years does not seem to have drawn him away from the attractions of the editorial chair, and only at the last moment he leaves by force the seat which he has occupied for upwards of forty years.