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of the great Durbar camp had to be treated in such a fashion as to 
prevent their appearing, as otherwise in the cold weather they must, 
to be part of a dusty arid plain. The executive gardening duties 
connected with the Bengal section of the camp were entrusted to 
Hemsley. These he took up with enthusiasm, and— in spite of a 
breakdown in health— performed so well as to earn the commenda- 
tion of Major Strachey, the officer in charge of the Bengal Camp, 
and of the late Mr. Gollan, Superintendent of the Saharanpur 
Botan o Garden, who was in administrative charge of the 
gardening operations generally. 
As events transpired, young Hemsley did not return to 
Bengal. The impending retirement of Mr. H. G. Hein, the 
respected Superintendent of the Agri-Horticultural Gardens at 
Lahore, was announced, and Hemsley was chosen as Hein's 
f'lK-iyu.' and successor. The quality of Hen. -I v \ w..rk at Delhi 
u» I. r c en i instances of unusual diiln - .i.^um well for his 
success at Lahore ; nor wae the anticipation belied. His work 
> in hLdi terms in siiccssive annual reports, rhc last 
nudum -holy reference being that with which this note opens. 
Hemsley's was a bright and kindly disposition. Good tempered 
<<>id ' n-m-h ti ed he made many friends. He was a keen 
volunteer j while an Assistant oi i tation he was 
an enthusiastic member of the Northern Bengal Mounted Volun- 
teers : at Lahore he was an equally enthusiastic member of the 
Panjab Light Horse. This corps paid a worthy tribute to a 
devoted volunteer at his funeral, which was a military one, all 
"' i "!- 1^114 pii-nt, hue, ntlKvi>j,pn-. nnns 
tne fetatt of the Lieutenant-Governor and the 1st Pan jab Volunteer 
Kitles. His own corps supplied the firing party, while crosses and 
wreaths were sent by the Luuitenam -<; ... n ,\v and Lady Rivaz, 
by the officers of his corps, and by the native staff of the Lahore 
warden. His friends have since decided to erect a monument 
over bis grave. 
Hemsley married some time after taking up his appointment at 
Lahore and has left a widow and an infant daughter 
JOHN MAHON.-It is unhappily not rarely the case that the 
Bulletin has to record the death of a Kew man who, while his 
SS 8 ° arCely i eft th / initial 8ta g^ has fallen a victim to the 
climate of one or other of our colonies whither he had gone, full 
&S^ m *^ t0 c ^ - the ™* * f ™ remote 
kno^f^ 1 , 011 ^ 1111 ; 688 J ' Mah0n ' or J - M - Bro ™ as he waS 
SS^ri? P n°n ^ 6 ° f his leavin ^ Kew in 1897 ' died in the 
nreslnt l^T ^T^' Gower Street > on A P ril 6 * of the 
present year. An Irishman by birth 
M^?2%T nt r ° f hi8 --tVmenJhr^^born 1n^ Dublin, 
Kew«« i Heremamedi n his native place till he came to 
the iSrit'^ TV^ 0ctober ^89L Having been promoted to 
the position of label writer he staved at Kew for -dx veai*, 
"s^of ^ ^ the am » of hto^tarfthe BtLuS 
StoST £ charact er, and ilbove the 
average, the appreciation of all those with whom he was 
