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He was twice called upon to lecture before this Society, giving 

 in 1904 a lecture on "My Experience and Observations in Horti- 

 culture" and in 1907 on "The Possibilities of Peach Growing in 

 New England." His pleasing personality won him many friends 

 and his death makes a vacancy in the ranks of the workers in 

 horticulture that will be hard to fill. 



He was elected to corresponding membership in the Society in 

 January of the present year. 



Arthur F. Means of Somerville, Massachusetts, died October 

 21, 1911. He became a member of the Society in 1907. 



Edouard Francois Andre, a corresponding member of the 

 Society since 1887, died at La Croix, France, October 25, 1911, at 

 the age of 70. He achieved a wide reputation in garden and park 

 architecture, not only in his native country, but in numerous 

 other parts of the world. He was also an industrious writer on 

 horticultural subjects acting as a member of the staff and later as 

 editor-in-chief of the Revue Horticole for more than fifty years. 



Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, a corresponding member of the 

 Society since 1876, died at his residence at Sunningdale, England, 

 December 10, 1911, at the advanced age of 94. Making botany 

 his life work he traveled extensively and published many volumes 

 on the floras of different regions. In 1865 he was appointed 

 Director of the Kew Gardens, succeeding his father, Sir William 

 Jackson Hooker, a position he held for twenty years. 



Victor Lemoine of Nancy, France, a corresponding member of 

 the Society since 1882, died December 12, 1911, in his 89th year. 

 The work of Lemoine in the introduction of many popular varieties 

 of garden flowering plants has made his name a familiar one 

 throughout the horticultural world. Only a short time before his 

 death he was awarded by the Trustees of the Society the George 

 Robert White Medal of Honor in recognition of his eminent service 

 in horticulture. 



