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highly of the support they have received from naturalists, and, with every wish 

 for their success, we consider it very questionable whether the work will pay its 

 expenses in its new form. We have always felt a pleasure in recommending this 

 periodical to our readers, and in impartially pointing out its merits and defects, 

 even while told that it was a rival, and ought to be treated as such. Has the 

 conduct of the Editors of the Mag. Zool. and Bot. been equally ingenuous 

 towards cotemporary publications ? "We regret to believe that it has not. 



OBITUARY. 



Died, at Stapleford, Herts., Dec. 28, 1837, Mr. William Griffin, aged 8.5. 

 He was for 22 years gardener to the late Samuel Smith, Esq., of Woodhall, 

 in this county ; and author of a Treatise on the Fine-apple ; also a paper 

 " On the Management of Grapes in Vineries," published in the Horticultural 

 Transactions, Vol. I., p. 98. He was a native of Leicestershire, in which county 

 he commenced business ; and after filling various situations in that and the neigh- 

 bouring counties, with the greatest credit to himself and satisfaction to his 

 employers, he arrived at Woodhall, where I first became acquainted with him ; 

 and, by practising under his direction for some time, I found in him the real man 

 of business, and one who acted the part of a father and friend to all the young 

 men who, like myself, had the good fortune to receive a part of their instruction 

 from him. I believe him to have been a first-rate horticulturist of his day ; and, 

 up to the last day of his practice, his anxiety was as great as ever ; although his 

 faculties had become somewhat impaired, and consequently business was not 

 carried on with the same degree of succes as formerly. He had retired to the 

 village above mentioned about four years before his death, which was occasioned 

 by a fall in his bed-room, which brought on inflammation, and which, in eight 

 days, put a period to his sufferings. He has left an only daughter to lament his 

 loss. — Correspondent of the Gardener's Magazine for February. 



On Friday last, at Scrooby, Mr. George Shepherd, aged 76 years. He was 

 highly respected by his employers, having with fidelity served in the capacity of 

 head gardener for nearly twenty years respectively in the families of the late 

 Viscount Galway, of Serlby Hall, and the late H. T. Mellish, Esq., of Blyth 

 Hall, near Bawtry. — Doncaster Gazette, Feb. 16. 



