190 Obituary. 



fine plant of Cytisus racemosus ; also seedling Cineraria and Verbena, and 

 rose Caroline Mignonne. 



Fruits : From S. W. Cole, Marston's Red Winter, Jewett's Red and 

 ^sopus Spitzenberg Apples, — the former, a fine new kind, which we have 

 described in a previous page. From S. Downer, Pomme de Neige apples. 



March 20, 1847. — An adjourned meeting of the Society was held to- 

 day, — the President in the chair. 



The Committee of Publication submitted a report in reference to the pub- 

 lishing a new series of the " Transactions of the Society," and it was ac- 

 cepted. 



Meeting dissolved. 



Exhibited. — Flowers : From M. P. Wilder, Tea, Princess Adelaide, 

 roses, and other sorts. 



Art. IV. Obituary. 



Death of M. Soulange Bodin. — It is with feelings of pain that we 

 announce the death of this distinguished horticulturist, which took place 

 last July, at his residence at Fromont, near Paris, at the age of 72 years. 



In our notes on the Gardens and Gardening of Europe, as gathered in our 

 recent tour (Vol. XI. p. 283,) we have given a very full account of M. Bo- 

 din's beautiful residence at Fromont, on the Seine, and, at the same time, 

 recorded our admiration of the taste in which the grounds were laid out, — 

 the extreme neatness prevailing in every part, — and the skilful arrangement 

 of the nursery department. The day we passed at Fromont was one which 

 will live long in our memory — and we shall ever feel grateful that we had 

 the pleasure, not only of a long and interesting correspondence with the intel- 

 ligent and accomplished proprietor, but the still greater gratification of par- 

 taking of the hospitalities of his home, where, after a life spent in the ser- 

 vice of his country, he had sought retirement, and devoted his fortune to 

 the planting and picturesque embellishment of his grounds. 



Some years since, we had the pleasure of sending M. Bodin several vols, 

 of our Magazine, and recently received in exchange, a complete set of the 

 Annals of Fromont, in 6 vols., a work of great value, issued under his su- 

 perintendence when Fromont was the Royal Institution for the promotion 

 of Horticulture. 



We need add but little to what we have said at the page referred 

 to. M. Bodin died, as he had lived, universally beloved and esteemed. 



Mr. S. Girling, the celebrated dahlia-grower and nurseryman of Stow- 

 market, near London, died during the past winter. For some years, he has 

 been one of the leading cultivators of the dahlia, petunia, and other florist 

 flowers. 



Death of R. Arthur, Esq. — Our readers will probably recollect our an- 

 nouncement, in the early part of our last volume (XII,) of a new correspon- 



