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■when there will be a brilliant display of Orchids, Stove and Greenhouse 

 Plants, Eoses, Azaleas, Pelargoniums, Cut Flowers, and Fruit. On the 8th, 

 9th, 10th, and 11th of the same month, so as to include the two days of 

 the Grand Flower Show, there will be an exhibition of Horticultural Manu- 

 factures, including apparatus for heating, mowing machines, garden tools, 

 cutlery, pottery, objects of decoration, philosophical instruments, pro- 

 tecting materials, bee hives, &c. The grand autumn meeting will take 

 place at St. James's Hall, on the 17th and 18th of November, when Fruit, 

 Chrysanthemums, and Foliage Plants, will be the chief objects of attraction. 

 Arrangements are in progress for the formation of a jury, to meet monthly, 

 for the examination of all new fruits that may be submitted to them. 

 Among the announcements of local shows, we may mention that two will 

 take place in the Bristol Zoological Gardens, on the 2nd of June, and the 

 8th of September ; and the Brighton and Sussex Floricultural Society will 

 hold two shows of two days each, the first on June 30th and July 1st, and 

 the second on the 15th and 16th of September. Three Horticultural 

 Exhibitions are announced to take place at the Crystal Palace, as follows: 

 Wednesday, May 19th; Wednesday, June 16th; and Wednesday and 

 Thursday, September 8th and 9th. On the 4th of this month, the Pomo- 

 logical Society will meet to consider the merits of fruits submitted, 

 in accordance with the schedule noticed by us last month. Sub- 

 scribers to that useful charity, the Gardeners' Eoyal Benevolent 

 Institution, will hear with pleasure that Michael Quigley, Martha Gar- 

 diner, Elizabeth Pope, and William Jackson, were elected pensioners on 

 the loth instant, when an election of officers for the ensuing year, took 

 place as follows: — Eobert Wrench, Esq., treasurer; J. J. Mechi, 

 Esq., vice-president; Mr. J. Veitch, jun., trustee; Edward Bosher, Esq., 

 arbitrator ; Messrs. Charlwood, Lea, and Forsyth, auditors ; Messrs. J. A. 

 Henderson, Rivers, Atlee, Shereard, Page, and Bruce, committee ; and 

 Mr. E. B. Cutler, re-elected secretary. 



Death has snatched from us two names of eminence in the annals of 

 Horticulture — the Duke of Devonshire, and Dr. Eoyle. The Duke of 

 Devonshire was a munificent patron of horticulture, and, with a liberal 

 hand, gave encouragement to all the higher departments of plant-culture, 

 and its associative architectural accessories. Chatsworth had a world- 

 wide renown, both as a school which has sent many a brave spirit into 

 the world, and as an example of the refined tastes of its noble possessor, 

 who, in every sense of the Avord, was a man of science, and a gentleman. 

 His Grace died on Monday, the 18th of January last, aged 68 years. Dr. 

 Royle's death occurred on the 2nd of January last. He was one of the 

 most distinguished botanists of this present century, and the first authority 

 on the agriculture and plants of the East. His " Materia Medica " is, in 

 itself, a splendid monument of diligent research, and high ability in 

 generalisation. 



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