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his family, which year by year became more cordiah All who had 

 the pleasure of knowing Mrs. Marshall and of sharing in the life 

 of the Rectory will understand how greatly these visits were enjoyed 

 by the guest ; and it was pleasant to know that the appreciation was 

 shared by his hosts. Those who were present at the dinner given in 

 June 1913 to the Editor by a representative bod}^ of contributors 

 in commemoration of the jubilee of ibis Journal will remember the 

 genial speech in the course of which Marshall referred to my visits. 

 The large grounds of the Kectory included within their limits a wood 

 of some extent, a pond and small stream, an ample lawn, a rock- 

 garden (to which a second was added by the Marshalls), a carriage- 

 drive, bordered on one side by a field in early spring golden with 

 daffodils and on the other by a wide irregular flower-bed, a kitchen- 

 garden with flower-borders in the old-fashioned style, and an orchard. 

 There was of course no set bedding, but the borders were filled with 

 an astonishing variety of flowers of all sorts, including some of chiefly 

 botanical interest and many not commonly met with — the whole 

 presenting a charming informality. I doubt whether anj^ garden 

 ever gave more pleasure, either to its possessors or to its visitors ; 

 not once but many times a day did we walk in it, nor did the walks 

 ever lose their charm. 



Marshall's contributions to the Journal have been, as its readers 

 know, very various : descriptions of new forms, biographies, reviews, 

 and an infinity of short notes on points of special interest, came 

 rapidly from his pen. Among the most interesting are the lists 

 of the plants, already referred to, collected during his annual holi- 

 day ; this was usually spent in Scotland, often with his old friends 

 Mr. F. J. Hanbury and Mr. W. A. Shoolbred, whose names sometimes 

 appear as joint authors of the lists ; other companions of his excursions, 

 besides his wife and family, were Mr. S. H. Bickham, the brothers 

 Linton, and Mr. C. E. Salmon. The lists, it need hardly be said, are 

 no mere enumerations of species, interesting onl}^ as records of the 

 local flora, but abound in notes of value ; as they were not published 

 until the following year, there was time for examination and com- 

 parison of specimens before the results were printed. In 1895 and 

 1906 Marshall visited various parts of Ireland— a country which 

 sometimes attracted him for snipe-shooting : in 1896-7 he was in 

 Wexford, where he found Sisyrinchium calif ornicitm in such 

 quantity as to convince him " that we have here an instance of 

 survival from an earlier flora, and not an adventitious plant " 

 (J. Bot. 1898, 49). His last visit to Ireland Avas to South Kerry, 

 accompanied by Mrs. Marshall, with a special view to the Saxifrages, 

 of which he had then begun to make a special study with a view to 

 undertaking them for the Camhridge Britisli Flora. A further 

 expedition in search of these, in which 1 was to have accompanied 

 him, was planned for 1915, but was prevented by the War. Shorter 

 visits were paid to numerous counties : he visited Westmorland and 

 Cornwall with R. P. Murray; Kent with Mr. Hanbury, when the 

 Flora of Kent was in preparation; Cardiganshire (1899), Carnar- 

 vonshire (1912), and others. Even the briefest visit to a locality 

 previously unknown to him afforded an opportunity for observation 



