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twenty-three distinct kinds (described in our volume for 1868, 

 pp. 843, 943) were obtained ; and of Dracaenas, regina, mag- 

 nifica, Mooreana, Chelsoni, Macleayi, and several others. To 

 these must be added such distinct and popular subjects as 

 Acalypha Wilkesiana (tricolor), Amaranthus melancholicus 

 ruber, Coleus Veitchii, and Gibsoni ; the more choice and 

 valuable Pandanus Veitchii, Aralia Veitchii, and many others. 

 During this journey Cape York in Northern Australia was 

 visited, and here was obtained a new Palm, which has since 

 been dedicated to his honour, under the name of Veitchia 

 Johannis. 



" The record of this second journey, specially interesting 

 as referring to many little known and rarely visited islands, 

 will be found in our volume for 1866. 



" In the early part of 1867, Mr. Veitch, then recently married, 

 was taken seriously ill with an affection of the lungs, and for 

 some time his life was despaired of. He, however, rallied, 

 under careful treatment and the potent aid of his indomitable 

 spirit, and though subsequently obliged to winter in a warmer 

 clime, his friends were not without hope that his life might 

 have been for some time spared to them. But this was not 

 to be. On the 9th inst. haemorrhage from the lungs, under 

 which he gradually sank, set in, and he expired on the evening 

 of the 13th inst. at his residence at Coombe Wood, leaving 

 behind him a widow and two boys. On Thursday last he 

 was laid beside his father in the Brompton Cemetery, having 

 been borne to his grave by the same trusty workmen : some 

 of whom had, moreover, assisted to carry his grandfather to 

 his last resting-place. 



"So we part sorrowing from one of the most gifted and 

 promising of our younger commercial horticulturists, one who, 

 if his life had been spared and his health had permitted, would 



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