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Cattlei/a lahiata and Zijgopetalum Maclcayl with other orchids 

 found by him in Brazil. 



Besides his garden duties, Bain kept up his love for native 

 plants, and even late in life he would walk many miles to point 

 the station of a rare plant, such as Gentiana Pneumonanthe^ Listera 

 coi'data, MaJaxis paludosa, and TricJiomanes radicans. He was 

 the first to find Malva rotundifolia and Bordeum sylvaticum in 

 the neighbourhood of Dublin. 



After more than fifty years' connection with tlie gardens of 

 Trinity College, Dublin, he retired in 1878 or 1879 ; he never 

 married, but in his retirement lived with a niece at Holyhead, 

 where he died on Tuesday, 28th April, in the early afternoon, and 

 was buried at Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin, on 1st May, 1903, 

 beside his brothers Eobert and William, Dr. Mackay, and other 

 friends. 



A portrait w^as published in Vol. 35 of ' The Garden,' in July 

 1889, the volume being dedicated to him. 



William Bull, the well-known nurseryman. King's Eoad, Chelsea, 

 died on 1st June, 1902, after an illness of three days. He was 

 born in 1828, and in his early life he was a traveller for the then 

 famous firm of liollison, at Tooting, and in that capacity became 

 known as an exceptionally able man. In 1861 he took over the 

 premises and nursery stock of Weeks & Co. ; this was the be- 

 ginning of his enterprising career. Ornamental plants, tender 

 flowering plants, and orchids were his favourites ; but he also 

 zealously took up any group of plants which attracted the attention 

 of his customers. Thus, Aucuha japonica was exhibited by him in 

 our rooms, in fruit, with the male and hermaphrodite flowers, on 

 20th February, 1868, and at the same time he pointed out the 

 length of time during which the pollen retains its fertilizing- 

 power. In June 1876 he also exhibited living plants of Liberian 

 coffee, Coffea liberica, Hierii, which he introduced, and has since 

 been widely brought into cultivation for estates on which 0. arabica 

 is subject to disease. In 1880 he despatched Messrs. Shuttle- 

 worth and Corder to Colombia for Orchids ; later he turned his 

 attention to orchid hybridizing, and his annual orchid exhibitions 

 were excellently managed. 



In the ' Gardeners' Chronicle' for 7th June, 1902, which has an 

 excellent portrait with an obituary, it is related that, wishing to 

 show a special Aroid, he brought it with him in his brougham, 

 till its horrible steuch drove him to take a place on the box-seat 

 by his coachman, and in this state the Aroid arrived at the editor's 

 office. 



He was elected Pellow of this Society 15lh February, 1866, and 

 in former years was a frequent attendant at our meetings ; he also 

 belonged to the Royal Geographical and Zoological Societies. The 

 distinction he prized most was that of a Victoria Medal of Honour, 

 from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1897. 



As a man of business he was energetic and hard-working, a 



