THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 



Mrs. J. Hood Wright Mrs. Andrew C. Zabriskie 



E. Yeandle Joseph A. Zanetti 



Miss Annette Young Charles ZoUer 



Mrs. A. Murray Young A. C. Zvolanek 

 Mrs. William H. Young 



Associate Members 



Frederick Hitchman Frederick Schultz 



Owen A. Hunwick William R. Seymour 



Chas. Milburn J. P. Sorenson 

 S. G. Milosy 



PHILIPPE DE VILMORIN 



On June 30 there passed away one of the greatest horticul- 

 turists and scientists the world has known, Philippe de Vilmorin, 

 head of the great seed industry of Vilmorin-Andrieux et Cie 

 since the death of his father in 1899. He was born in 1872 at 

 Verrieres-le-Buisson, near Paris. He was a man of wide horti- 

 cultural knowledge and activities, and his early death, in the 

 prime of life, is not only a great loss to horticulture, but also to 

 the science of genetics in which he was deeply interested and to 

 which he had devoted many years of his life. 



A more detailed account of his life and work is being prepared 

 and will appear in a later number of this Journal. 



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