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Though many of his friends, among whom his only son the 
late Lord Moreton, Professor Sargent and Mr. Vicary Gibbs were 
foremost, pressed him more than once to allow an illustrated 
catalogue of his life’s work to be prepared, he never would consent 
to it, and it is much to be desired that such a catalogue may now 
be made as a memorial of a man whose sense of duty to his 
county, his country and his neighbours was so strong and so 
consistently followed up in his daily life. 
H. J. ELWES. 
I spent a few hours at Tortworth in May, 1915, in company 
with Lord Ducie, and a brief account of some of the more interesting 
trees appeared in the Kew Bulletin for that year (p. 298). Prob- 
ably the most famous tree at Tortworth is the golden chestnut 
of California (Castanopsis chrysophylla). It was planted by 
Lord Ducie about 1855, and when I measured it in 1915 it was 
30 feet high and 3 feet 7 inches in girth of trunk. It has always 
been the finest tree in England and, having borne fertile seeds 
for nearly thirty years past, is the parent of many trees in gardens. 
now, including most of those at Kew. 
Lord Ducie was one of the few amateurs of the present time 
who took an interest in and planted oaks, and Tortworth in 
consequence possesses a number of rare trees unrivalled elsewhere 
in size and development. Amongst them may be mentioned 
Q. macedonica, Q. Kelloggit, Q. glauca, Q. conferta, Q. Mirbeckii, 
Q. imbricaria and Q. Aegilops. A tree in which Lord Ducie took 
great interest was the true Juglans rupestris, a very elegant 
walnut from the 8.W. United States, rare in English gardens 
and nowhere so fine as at Tortworth. Of conifers Lord Ducie 
had a splendid general collection, admirably grown, and of the 
rarer species his Pseudolarix Fortunei and Torreya californica are 
particularly noteworthy. 
For many years Lord Ducie was the doyen of tree cultivators 
in the British Isles, and even in Europe there was only one whose 
length of experience approached his—Mr. Gaston Allard, of 
Angers, who died in January, 1918. 
WwW. SB. 
Miss Matitpa Smiru, Artist in the Herbarium, retired from 
the public service on 29 July, 1921, in conformity with the 
regulations prescribed for members of the Civil Service. The 
devotion to duty which has marked Miss Smith’s tenure of her 
post during the past twenty-three years has placed Kew under | 
an obligation it is not easy to assess. Moreover, the labours of 
Miss Smith, as an official member of the Herbarium staff, 
constitute but a small portion of her services to this institution. 
When in 1878 the late Mr. W. H. Fitch (K.B. 1915, p. 277), 
gave up his work in connection with the Botanical Magazine, 
the editorship of which was part of the duty of the Director, the 
late Sir Joseph Hooker was under the necessity of endeavouring 
