56 Obituaiy. 



Luculirt gratlssima, Pol/spora axillaris ; Pancratium speciosum, delightfully 

 fragrant; and twigs of Eugenza wzyrtifolia, beautiful in bearing pear-shaped 

 crimson fruit : most or all of these seemed to be from Mr. Pratt, gardener to 

 W. Harrison, Esq., Cheshunt. Andromeda floribunda, two compact plants, 

 abounding in flower-buds ; Mr. Glenny, Priestley« hirsuta, Mr. Knight; a prize. 

 Strelitzk reginge, Cr6we« saligna, Enca Archevidna, Pancratium undulatum, 

 Billbergi« fasciata, Neottia speciosa, in bud : these were from various persons. 

 Chinese chrysanthemums, first prize to Mr. Redding ; second to Messrs. 

 Chandler, who had a prize for a selection of green-house plants. A collection 

 of miscellaneous gathered flowers, Mr. Redding, a prize. A box of flowers 

 of camellias, Mr. Smith. A box of flowers of heartseases, Mr. Mountjoy. 



Specimens of flower-painting : — For groups of flowers : first prize to 

 Mrs. Withers; subject, a group of flowers of pelargoniums: second prize 

 to Mr. Alfred Chandler; subject, a group of various flowers. For single 

 flowers : a prize to Mr. Wakeling ; subjects, flowers of the kinds esteemed 

 by florists. 



A band of music attended and played at short intervals. The company, at 

 the time we looked round (between three and four in the afternoon), was less 

 numerous than such a treat ought to attract to it. — J. D. 



Art. VII. Obituary. 



Died, Oct. 15., aged 62, Walter William Capper, Esq., of Hanley Castle 

 near Malvern. His physiological researches on the vine must be fresh in the 

 recollection of our readers, and several other valuable articles from his pen 

 have appeared in different volumes of this Magazine. One of Mr. Capper's 

 sons, Charles Capper, Esq., an eminent engineer at Birmingham, is the author 

 of several papers in our Architectural Magazine, and of a description, with 

 engravings, of a steam-draining machine, in our First additional Supplement to 

 the Encyclopcedia of Agriculture. 



Died, at the residence of Mr. Brown, Bedford Nursery, Hampstead Road, 

 Nov. 3. 1834, in the twenty-fifth year of his age, Mr. James Sherare, gardener 

 to Sir John Hay, Bart., of Kingsmeadows, having survived his worthy father 

 little more than fourteen months. Mr. Sherare was a young man of great 

 abilities, who, having been from his boyhood ardently devoted to the study of 

 the sciences, had acquired a general knowledge of many, and intimate ac- 

 quaintance with several, of them ; which, with the powers he possessed of 

 making all his knowledge bear upon his profession, caused his friends to look 

 forward to him as one destined to act a conspicuous part in elucidating and 

 improving the practices of his art. Of his general character and disposition 

 it is unnecessary to speak, as the communications which, under different 

 signatures, he sent to the Gardener'' s Magazine and other periodicals, prove 

 that his love of science was not greater than his love of justice, his hatred of 

 deception and oppression, and his ardent desire to elevate the condition of his 

 fellow men. Being a great admirer of mechanics' institutions, he took an 

 active part in the formation of one at Peebles, at which, last season, he 

 delivered a course of lectures upon botany. His death will long be felt by all 

 his acquaintances, and especially by those who had the benefit of his epistolary 

 correspondence ; and the writer of this can only express his hope that the 

 removal of one whose sun of life was only rising may stimulate to greater 

 activity those who are left, knowing not how soon they may also be called 

 upon to give an account of their stewardship of those talents which have been 

 committed to them — R. F. 



