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XXV.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Sir H. A. Wickham.—We note with pleasure that the honour 
of knighthood has been conferred on Mr. H. A. Wickham in 
recognition of his pioneer work in the establishment of the Rubber 
Industry in the East. 
Str Epmunp Gites Loper, Bart.—Kew has lost a valued 
correspondent of long standing by the death of Sir Edmund Loder 
at Leonardslee, Horsham, on April 14th. He will be long remem- 
bered as the maker of one of the finest English gardens of the 
present time. His tastes in horticulture were very comprehensive, 
and although his interest in late years was probably keenest in 
rhododendrons and conifers, there was scarcely any phase of 
ardening with which he was not in active sympathy. In his 
earlier days he took up the cultivation of Alpines and constructed 
one of the most elaborate rock gardens in the country for their 
accommodation. Daffodils and hardy fruits had also been amongst 
his special interests. Sir Edmund, however, was a good deal more 
than a successful cultivator. He took a keen interest in botanical 
problems, and his efforts to get his collections correctly named 
were untiring. He was also a zoologist, hunter and sportsman. 
As lately as March 29th he was fishing in the River Tay. He was 
the eldest son of Sir Robert Loder, Bart., and was born in 
August, 1849. As his only son, Capt. R. E. Loder, of the Royal 
Sussex Regiment, died in March, 1917, from wounds received at 
Gaza, Sir Edmund is succeeded in the baronetcy by his grandson. 
Dr. Grorce V. Perez.—We regret to announce the death of 
Dr. G. V. Perez on February 29th at La Quinta, Santa Ursula, 
Teneriffe. 
Dr. George V. Perez was the son of Dr. Victor Perez, of Orotava, 
Teneriffe, a distinguished physician who took a great interest 
in agriculture and horticulture in the Canaries, and in whose 
honour Micromeria Perezii was named. After his father’s death 
he edited a memoir on the Canarian fodder plant ‘‘ Tagasaste ”’ 
(Cytisus palmensis), which had been prepared by Dr. Victor Perez 
in collaboration with the French botanist Sagot. 
Dr. G. V. Perez from time to time contributed to various hor- 
ticultural and arboricultural journals articles dealing with 
Canarian botany, forestry and horticulture; among these may be 
mentioned an account of an interesting system of dry farming 
practised in the island of Lanzarote (Bull. Soc. Hortic. France, 
Jan. 1913). It is, however, chiefly as an enthusiastic investi- 
gator of the Canarian flora that his name will be remembered. 
He cultivated numerous rare Canarian plants in his gardens at 
Puerta Orotava, Villa Orotava and Santa Ursula, and was instru- 
mental in introducing some of them into cultivation in Europe. 
It was owing to his indefatigable efforts that the long-lost Statice 
arborea was rediscovered on the face of a precipitous cliff, up 
which it was hauled by ropes to which hooks were attached (Ann. 
