PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
187 
Obituary, 
HE Society has to record the recent loss by 
death of the undermentioned Fellows 
Grorer Ports, Esq, M.P., of 4, Eccleston 
Terrace, Pimlico, н апа Barnstaple, m n, 
. Pot took & in all 
6. 
questions Sq with мри нт t the volun- 
teer movement, of whieh he was one of the very 
earliest trons, In questions of art, incomes. 
the national umen in ps welfare of 
the Church of which he 
in an extension of the s 
chise 
fran 
the Н mons a National tow: 
the monument to be erected to the memory о 
great patron of the Royal crete can ben 
the late lamented ee Con 
21st July.— euni , Fellow 
of the Royal Botanic t Society, Depity Lis 
for [неее игре 4 magistrate for Lincolnshi 
Rutland, a = Northampton, of ining валь 
~ aged 68 
August.—Sir CHARLE ү, Bart., of 
South Street, Grosvenor ene P Fiii Park, 
r^r 
s a —Gxoncz Bravroy, Esq., of South 
Lambe Б 
8th A s Н. Massey, Esq., of 56, 
соне ан , Hyde Park, W., aged 78. 
10th August.— .Эиже, Esq., of 76, 
Sloane Street, $. rer Alice Holt, Farnham. 
Mr. C. W. Dilke died p the чт. inst., at T€ 
Holt, i стане in his 75% у "He 
meneed his ea Na ay Office, at 
merset Коше ; but from а very early age litera 
ture was s the favourite pursuit of his leisure h 
Old Plays 
of in 
Six vols, 8vo., as a continuation of Dodsley's Col- 
leetion, and му beu proprietor of the 
eum, whi raised to a high position by 
untiring energy ye admirable Judgment, a 
а few yas under his able d = oe 
foe it the first тэт! journ M 
continued for à Pac aio and 
e was 
оок 
ШЕ neighbourhood where he resided. 
. Made one of the magistrates for the cou ы of 
Surrey in 1859, and from that time till his death 
took an efficient part in the business of the coun 
and was an active member of borough beneh, 
‚6 September. — The Dvx& of CLEVELAND 
died at Raby Castle, near D having only 
succeeded his brother, the in Jan- 
ary las liam John Frederick Vane, third 
Duke of Cleveland, Marquis of eveland, Earl of 
Darlington and Viscount Barn of 
Raby Castle, Durham, was bo in 
1792, and was the second son of the third Earl of 
Marquis of Cle 
ngton (who was created arquis veland 
in 1827, and Deine of Cleveland in 1833), by the 
econd daughter and ¢o-heiress of the last 
umed the name of Розен on in- 
and was for many 
England as 
Bolton. He as 
heriting his recti r's property, 
years familiar to the sportsmen of Lord 
2: oed ett. 58 resumed his paternal name 
of Vane by Royal licence, shortl er succeedi 
to фида H У „А. at O а 
1812; was М.Р. for St. Ives 1846-52, and for 
Ludlow 1852-7, but took no active part in the 
eba the Lower Hou e marri 
1815, Lady Catherine Lowther, daughter of the 
Lonsdale, but e by his 
таа: ша Powlett n his racing 
in life, were 
8 аї 
succeeded in his titles and vast уот by his oaks 
surviving brother, Lord Harry George Vane, М.Р. 
for Hasti У 
and marrie 
sons, who may perpe te this pii 
tember.—Rickwaw Ross, Esq., of 87, 
а t Guildford Street, Southwark, S.E. 
Correspondence, 
To the Secretary of the Royal Horticultural 
iety.—Sir,—The old-fashion ey potato is 
now lost in England, Scotland, and or E enin 
t got i the ash 
leaved kidney are now the best which we 
aimed the 
possess, but mene of them has retai 
ious flayour which the kidney potato 
of 50 } caza 10.00 Uns betk dnd. You will be 
pl to observe the statement at the end of 
at 
Admiral ото в speech at a recent meeting of 
the Royal Geographical Society. I have heard 
so much expressed at the 
