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and grapes brought down by Mr. Smith, the gardener of Arthur Keily, Esq., 

 of Ballysaggartmore, deserve particular mention, having been a theme of 

 general admiration for their enormous size and surprising perfection. 

 Among the botanical productions, we noticed a most splendid Yucca glori- 

 osa, with one thousand blossoms, from the Waterford Nursery; a very fine 

 Yucca filamentosa, from Miss Davis ; Amaryllis superba, with other select 

 plants, from Woodstock j erythrinas, &c., from Curraghmore. The pines, 

 peaches, melons, grapes, &c., were truly splendid, from Curraghmore, 

 Ballysaggartmore, Mount Congreve, &c., with a delightful profusion of 

 georginas, carnations, &c. (^Ibid., Aug. 12.) 



Notice to the Secretaries of Provincial Horticultural So- 

 cieties. — The above notices for the year 1833 are, no doubt, incomplete ; 

 partly because we are obliged to go to press early in October, but chiefly 

 because notices of several provincial societies have not been sent us. In 

 our February Number, however, we intend to publish a supplement to the 

 present article, in which will be included all the notices sent us between 

 the middle of October and January 1. 1834-. As we should wish to render 

 these notices complete, we request the Secretaries of Provincial Societies 

 to look over this article, and the list, on the cover, of papers received, and 

 to supply us with what is wanting. We are most anxious to show to the 

 world how very generally a taste for gardening is diifused over the country. 

 — J.W.L. 



Art. IX. Obituary. 



Died, at the Norwich Nursery, on the 4th of September last, Mrs. 

 Sarah MacJcie, aged 59 years. — This estimable person was the widow 

 of Mr. William Aram Mackie, and for the last sixteen years has conducted 

 the business of this extensive fruit and forest tree nursery, with the design 

 of preserving the trade and its connections for her rising family. In the 

 performance of this arduous task she was singularly active and exemplary, 

 and her exertions have been for many years attended with great success, 

 though her hopes with regard to the succession of her two elder sons 

 were painfully disappointed. Both were cut off just as they entered the 

 period of manhood. The first (Edward Mackie) perished by an accident, 

 while shooting wildfowl at the mouth of the Tees ; and the second 

 (George Mackie) fell a victim to the small-pox, after vaccination. Not- 

 withstanding these bereavements, Mrs. Mackie still continued the business 

 with unabated attention for the benefit of her surviving children, until 

 September last, when she was herself removed, after a very short illness. 

 This nursery is an example of the rapid course of modern improvement, 

 for persons only lately dead could remember the whole extent of the 

 ground and a mile beyond it an entire heath, only used as a sheepwalk. 

 Yet this spot, which was taken into cultivation about sixty years ago, has 

 been rendered the centre from which a great part of Norfolk and Suffolk 

 have been supplied with the numerous j)lantations which have so much 

 improved this district. This change took place through the exertions of 

 Mr. John Mackie, with whom the nursery originated, and from whom it 

 descended, in 1797, to his two sons, William Aram and John Mackie, by 

 whom it was conducted with great spirit and success, until their respective 

 deaths in 1817 and 1818, when it fell into the hands of Mrs. Sarali Mackie, 

 whose death we have now to record. The Norwich Nursery will now be 

 carried on by Mr. Frederick Mackie, the eldest surviving son, who has 

 just added to the former stock the entire collection of succulent plants 

 lately belonging to Mr. Thomas Hitchen of Norwich, which has been highly 

 esteemed for the great rarity and beauty of the plants of which it consists. 

 —J. G. Norwich, Nov. 1. 1833. 



