24 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Obituary. 
The undermentioned Fellows have died during 
the month tat anua 
ovs WARD decus, Esq., of Clapham 
Com 
7th h.—Bo OYCE COMBE, Esq., of eite Seymour 
Street, Portman Square. For many years magis- 
о = v olice Courts. 
8. SALMON, of Westbourne Crescent, 
Hyde Parke 
9th.—Mn. Cuartes McIntosn, Newcome Villa, 
кем Edinburgh, ка ог of hd “ Practical 
Garden The Greenhous chard 
versal 
ge per, and amiable self- 
sacrificing се динен». del him to his 
and his large stores of varied о with the 
and niente which he 
communicated them, captivated the ар or 
casual acquaintance. ^ the oldest 
corresponding popes of the Societ 
12th.—J. Yin Еулмз, Esq., Gold den Hill Hamp- 
Commission 
rudi er of the Court urt of 
12h. Mns BYDE E, of Westbourne Park. 
18th.—Duke or Gravetaxn, K.G. His Grace 
passing interest in Horticulture. 
—Miss Kerr, Queen’s Gardens, Hyde Pk. 
ro ag ~—Francts BARBER, Esq., of Etwall Lodge, 
2214. — WILLIAM T. à 
Hóde T ERRY, Esq., of Peterborough 
23rd.—Lapy Brin у 
Windsor CKMAN, of St. Leonard’s, 
Correspondence, 
ETTER FROM THE COLLECTOR IN ADA, 
Sta. ManrHa, Nov, 26th, 1863. —Sir,—I arrive 
ng, and have just ne 
my ‘Benge р the Custom- hou 
I start to-night dir hence 
nal and one eur. They are all bound 
for me ex zo chief aim being valuable 
orchids; so 1 
ы D = е з soon be we 
I will write you more at length soon ; р present 
I have scarcely a minute to spare.—JouN WEIR. 
COTTON Prants.—Bury, LANCASHIRE, Mes ary 
22, 1864.—I have jesti; received from 
a few seeds of a вс vari 
** Vine Cotton," which he 
Roy 
variety at oe 55. 
for that purpose, Та emt at I can send only 
sofew, but] I could snl obtain dh & dozen, and 
- remainder have gone to In dia, 
PER 7 
rr e 
the vi hr is of cotton et there have bona i 
complaints agai e "infert. y of the cotton 
8 whic ve been sent out there for sowing 
(the c having been stri бред or cleaned from 
the сойо or some time 
ut xd: 
и ку aet that the unfertile ile 
Ped 
verified recently, two а эр of New 
from the same source arrived from New: 
one cleaned, the other with 
Ww: 
use the same prin 
aa to pe pus which our friends ma; 
abroad,—W. Wax 
—I shall b eds appy y 55 present to the Society 
ен varieties of Cotton seeds if the Council 
will accept of them 
NT ene Моревм . BouquET-HOLDERS.— 
n observe that v Royal Horticultural 
n Exhibition of Ancient 
e em р quet- чет the ensuing 
seas certain that Cir e are any Ancient 
ТОРО 1 was "under the in 
that they — INQUIRE 
[We t inform our Сокендин PF far 
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n 186 hey were of "the clara 
enri Deux ware 3 (1540: 80), iit the property 9 
Sir Anthony de Rothschild, Bart.] 
ANcIENT AND MODERN Восооет-Ногрева. 818 
prizes for, 
be 
I а party? Is Miss March’s flower 
Are all Sir г Wentworth Dilke's s table decoratic 
et-h hol 
