HORTUS VEITCHII 



Subsequently entering the service of the Maharajah Scindia 

 of Gwalior, he again laid out the palace gardens, of which, 

 and of the Gwalior State Gardens, he remained superintendent 

 until his death, which took place in India on October llth 

 1902. 



Maries had enthusiasm, but lacked " staying " power : he 

 was musical, much to the delight of the Japanese peasants, 

 and doubtless this must often have helped the work : he was a 

 skilled shot, as the buck on the domains of the Maharajah 

 Scindia learnt to their cost when Maries was living in the 

 country of the Mahrattas. 



Maries was a Fellow of the Linnean Society, an original 

 recipient of the Victoria Medal of Honour, granted by the 

 Royal Horticultural Society in recognition of his services to 

 Horticulture, and a frequent contributor to the Horticultural 

 Press. 



References : Bretschneider's " History of European Botanical Discoveries 

 in China," vol. ii. p. 741 ; Maries in The Garden, 1881-1882, vols. 

 xx. xxii. passim; " Eambles of a Plant Collector"; Burbidge in 

 The Garden, 1883, vol. xxiv. p. 444, with portrait ; Gard. Chron. 

 1902, vol. xxii. p. 360, obituary note and portrait. 



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