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In performing such operations, it is necessary it should be done with 

 great care and moderation. 



Attend to fences of all sorts, keeping them in good repair, and 

 painting or tarring where necessary. Young hedges will now 

 require digging or hoeing, and cleaning, otherwise they will soon 

 get bare at the bottom. 



Young plantations will require attention in the cutting and remov- 

 ing of gorse, long grass, or other herbage, where they are in danger 

 of choking the plants. In many cases it will be insufficient to 

 clear round the plants. 



Many evergreen trees and shrubs may be transplanted with 

 success during the present month. In performing such work, it 

 will be necessary to have good balls of earth with the roots, which 

 should be exposed as short a time as possible to the weather. 

 After planting, they will require attention as to staking and watering. 



Hoe vigorously in the nursery during dry weather, and fork 

 between the rows of young plants. As time permits, continue the 

 clearing and preparing of ground for planting next season. 



Keep carriage drives and walks clean, and mow grass lawns and 

 pleasure grounds. Lewis Bayne. 



KiNMEL Park. 



Obituary. 



ME. WILLIAM EVAN'S, for long assistant -secretary of the 

 Botanical Society in its earlier days, as well as at the same 

 time being curator of the Eoyal Caledonian Horticultural Society, 

 passed away in the beginning of May. Mr. Evans was profoundly 

 versed in topographical botany, and showed a most facile manipulative 

 dexterity and taste in mounting plant specimens for the Herbarium. 

 On the 19th of May, the town of Stirling had a loss felt there, and 

 generally amongst British botanists, by the death of Mr. Alexander 

 Croall, curator of the Smith Institute, in his seventy-sixth year. 

 Mr. Croall began life as a parish schoolmaster near Montrose, at the 

 same time giving his spare time to botanical pursuits, in which he 

 became so prominent as to attract the attention of the late Sir 

 William Hooker, who selected him to prepare sets of the plants of 

 Braemar for the Queen and Prince Albert, a commission executed to 

 their entire satisfaction. But Mr. CroaU's fame will rest in his joint 

 authorship of British seaweeds, nature-printed, a work in four volumes. 

 He was president of the local Archieological and Natural History 

 Society, doing much to kindle enthusiasm for work amongst the 

 members. Dr. Smiles has given a sketch of Mr. CroaU's career in 

 his new work. Men of Invention and Industry. 



