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JosiAH Goodwin died June 3, aged 70 years. He was form- 

 erly the editor of the Joi/rnal of the Bath and West of England 

 Agricultural Society and of the four nal of the Royal Agricultural 

 Society. 



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 Octave Gravot, chief of a section in the firm of Vilmorin, 

 Andrieux & Co, died August 17th, in Paris. 



Mr. Grun, university gardener at Strassburg, in Els, died 

 Februrary i6th, aged 40 years. 



Thomas Harrison, Sr., of the firm of Harrison & Sons, died 

 at Leicester, England, aged 75 3'ears. 



Enoch Harvey died October ist, aged 64 years. Mr. 

 Harvey was senior member of the firm Harvey, Alsop, Stevens 

 & Harvey. He was a devoted lover of herbaceous and alpine 

 plants, and was for many years chairman of the Liverpool 

 Horticultural Company. His loss will be deeply felt by 

 orchid growers. 



Seraphin van den Heede, commercial gardener at Lille, 

 France, died, aged 79 years. 



William Holmes, of London, died September i8th, aged 

 38 years. He was a prominent landscape gardener and con- 

 tractor. 



Mr. Houllett, for a long time superintendent of the green- 

 houses in the Botanical Garden of Paris, died in his 75th 

 year. The genus of orchids, Houlletia, was named in his 

 honor. 



William Humphries, for twenty-six years head gardener at 

 Wimpole Hall, died, aged 68 years. 



Herman Jager, the most popular German gardener and hor- 

 ticultural writer, died January 5th, aged 74 years. 



