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William Chapman died September 25, aged 76 years. He 

 was commonly known as "Pear Chapman," from his success 

 in raising and exhibiting hardy fruits. 



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Dr. E. Cosson, a celebrated French botanist, died Septem- 

 ber 30, 1890, in his 70th year. Immediately after receiving 

 his degree of doctor of medicine, he studied the plants around 

 Paris, and published the Flora of the Vicinity of Paris, which 

 has remained a classic treatise. He continually contributed 

 articles to papers, and at different times published the results 

 of his labors in Algiers and Tunis. 



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Jules Courtois, one of the most respected horticulturists 

 of France, died December 25, 1889, at the age of 76 years. 

 He was one of the most distinguished pupils of Mr. Hard}-, 

 gardener-in-chief at Luxemburg, and later he tried to spread 

 the excellent principles received from his teacher. He zeal- 

 ously tried to introduce practical courses in fruit culture in the 

 department of Eure-et-Loir ; and at the same time he founded 

 the Society of Horticulture and Viticulture of Eure-et-Loir, 

 to which he afterwards bequeathed 25,000 francs, 



Adolf Credner died May 7, aged 39 years. He first be- 

 came known through his winter flowers, which he exhibited 

 in January, 1881, at Berlin. Later he became connected with 

 L. Moller's Deutscher Gartnerzeitimg, and finally with the firm 

 of Haage & Schmidt. 



George Deal, of the firm John Weeks & Co., horticultur- 

 al builders, Chelsea, died June 30, aged 56 years. 



Friederich Georg Donat, gardener of Count Carl von 

 Schoenburg-Forderglauchau, died March 17, at the Castle 

 Wechselburg on the Mulde. 



Francis Dumur died recently at Moscow, Russia, aged 76 

 years. He was for twenty-four years head gardener of Mos- 

 cow. 



