1880. 



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valuable work, entitled " Two Visits to the Tea 

 Countries of China," started once more to pur- 

 sue his adventurous career, and prosecute his 

 scientific researches. The results of this last 

 journey are embodied in " Residence Among 

 the Chinese, Inland, on the Coast, at Sea; 

 being the tliird visit, from 1853 to 1867." In 

 1857 Mr. Fortune was employed by the United 

 States Patent Office to collect in China, the 

 seeds of the tea-shrub and other plants, a duty 

 which occupied him two years, and which he 

 discharged with considerable success. 



Dr. Howsley. — A friend writes : " The ve- 

 nerable Dr. Wm. M. Howsley, of Leavenworth, 

 Kansas died at Central City, Nebraska on Mar. 

 5th, 1880. He was afflicted with Bright's disease 

 of the kidneys for several years past, which 

 caused his death while visiting his daughter in 

 Nebraska. Kansas has lost a useful man. He 

 was president of the Kansas State Horticultural 



Society for four years, and has always been en- 

 thusiastic in the work and study of horticulture." 



J. W. Manning. — The proprietor of the 

 Reading (Mass.) nurseries, was born at Bedford, 

 New Hampshire, in March, 1847, and com- 

 menced his very successful business where he is 

 now in 1854. His nurseries have been one of 

 the cheap sources of supply to the people of 

 New Hampshire, but the Legislature of New 

 Hampshire in 1879, enacted a law forbidding the 

 sale of trees, shrubs or vines not grown in the 

 State. The people of New Hampshire can how- 

 ever go to his nurseries and buy, and numbers 

 no doubt will. 



F. Andre Michaux. — A portrait of this dis- 

 tinguished botanist was recently presented to 

 the American Philosophical Society. This So- 

 ' ciety was founded by Benjamin Franklin, and 

 I recently celebrated its 100th birthday. 



Horticultural Societies. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. 

 — As already noted in our magazine, the Penn- 

 sylvania Horticultural Society had but a com- 

 paratively small interest in the niagniticeut 

 Horticultural Hall of Philadeli^hia, which was 

 owned by a stock comi^any, the Society being 

 one of the stockholders. It was recently sold 

 at sheriff's sale, and bought for a little less than 

 $75,000 by Mr. W. L. Schaffer. Mr. S. bought 

 it that the Horticultural Society might not be 

 deprived of its home, and has generously an- 

 nounced that the Society shall have free use 

 of it on all occasions. 



To mark their aiii^reciation of this generous 

 act, a series of resolutions, beautifully engross- 

 ed and elegantly framed, were presented to Mr. 

 Schaffer on the 9th inst. 



Major-General Robert Patterson, now in his 

 eighty-ninth year, and one of the former presi- 

 dents, made the presentation speech, comment- 

 ng on the munificence of Mr. Schaffer, and 



the honor the horticulturists of Philadelphia 

 were conferring on themselves by honoring 

 such a generous public spirit. Mr. Thomas 

 Meehan followed in a brief address, alluding to 

 Mr. Schaffer "s well known unostentatious man- 

 ner of doing good, and expressing the opinion 

 that, gratified as every one must be at the gen- 

 erous deed, and pleased as he was sure Mr. S. 

 must be at this public acknowledgement there- 

 of, every one knew that in the pleasure of do- 

 ing the good act he felt an ample reward. 



Mr. A. W. Harrison handed the testimonial, 

 which is incased in a handsome walnut frame, 

 is signed by Messrs. Robert Buist and Samuel 

 W. Noble. Vice-Presidents ; Caleb Cope, Rob- 

 ert Patterson and J. E. Mitchell, ex-Presidents; 

 Thomas Meehan, Corresponding Secretary ; 

 Thomas P. James, Professor of Botany ; A. W. 

 Harrison. Recording Secretary and Treasurer; 

 James C. Booth, Professor of Horticultural 

 Chemistry ; J. J. Rathvon, Professor of Ento- 

 mology, and by the chairmen of all the differ- 

 ent committees for 1880. It expresses the grate- 



