608 Obituary. 



Van Mons, an excellent kind of standard pear ; beau St. Bernard, a new sort 

 of the doyenne family and quality ; Henri Quatre, a very excellent bearer, of 

 good quality, standard ; brown beurre, and Gansell's bergamot. Apples : 

 Gravenstein, pomme de Neige, pigeonet, Beat's pippin, Hollandbury ; Orack 

 Elma, a Persian apple, with a bloom, flesh firm and somewhat perfumed, 

 probably a good kitchen apple (the tree, as yet, has not shown symptoms of 

 canker, like others from the same country) ; golden reinette, autumn pearmain, 

 hoary morning, king of the pippins. 



Oct. 20. — Read. Observations on the growth of the potato, by Sir G. S. 

 Mackenzie, Bart. 



Exhibited. Louise bonne pears and true golden pippin apples, from Mr. 

 Whitino', gardener to Lord Tyrconnei. Swan's egg pears, from the gardener 

 of W. Stevens, Esq., communicated by Mr. J. Maher. Seedling heartsease, 

 and flowers of dahlias and seedling dahhas, from Mr. Glenny, F.H.S. Cym- 

 bidium sinense, and flowers of dahlias, from Mrs. Marryatt. Oncldium papilio, 

 Brass2« caudata, Cattley« Loddigesw, Catasetum tridentatum ; Oncidiura sp. 

 nova, Rio ; Rodrigueziffl laxiflora and planifolia, from Messrs. Rollisson. A 

 citron melon, from Mr. Buck, Blackheath. 



Also, from the Garden of the Society. Escall6n?« montevidensis and rubra var., 

 (S'alvia splendens and cardinalis, /Solanum aspero-lanatum, Amarjlli* Bella- 

 donna, Madia elegans. Cassia acuminata, iupinus ornatus, Oncidium Lance- 

 dnum. Pears: Doyenne blanc, from a wall ; doyenne blanc, ofFa plant the 

 stock of which is a mountain ash, the flavour much the same as that of the 

 preceding ; Marie Louise, from a wall ; beurre de Capiaumont, this kind still 

 maintains its character of bearing abundantly, and of withstanding the spring 

 frosts as a standard ; Urbaniste ; Comte de Lamy, a good bearer as a 

 standard, but has suffered by the dry weather, an exceedingly sweet rich 

 pear; Duchesse d'Angouleme, brown beurre, moorfowl egg, poire d'Amande ; 

 poire Neill, of but half the size usual from standards, and the trees, though 

 vigorous, are sure to be broken by the weight of the fruit, if not supported 

 (the earliest and best blossoms were killed, and these fruits are not so good 

 as usual, owing to the drought.) Apples : golden reinette, king of the pippins, 

 Fearn's pippin, pomme de neige ; gloria mundi, Bedfordshire foundling, these 

 two are good kitchen apples ; Burn's seedling, pigeonet ; Warwickshire pippin, 

 a handsome table apple ; Petworth seedling, Loan's pearmain, and golden 

 russet nonpareil. Suffolk thorn pear, a seedling from Gansell's bergamot, 

 from A. Archdeacon, Esq. 



Art. V. Obituary. 



Mr. James Drummond, that indefatigable botanist, who has sent home so 

 many interesting plants to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, and to various others, 

 has fallen a victim to the climate of Cuba, in the prime of life, and just as he 

 was on the point of exploring the botanical riches of that portion of the United 

 States which, next to Texas, held out the best prospect of rewarding his in- 

 defatigable exertions, namely, Florida. He has, indeed, accomplished enough, 

 by his zeal and researches, to secure to himself a lasting name throughout the 

 botanical world ; yet it is impossible not deeply to regret the loss, both as 

 concerns our favourite science and his friends. He had made arrangements 

 for a grant of land in the interior of Texas, so that his prospects for the main- 

 tenance of his family were brighter than ever; and he could not have failed, 

 by the proximity of his intended residence to the hitiierto unexplored moun- 

 tains of North Mexico, to render yet greater service to that science to which 

 he was so ardently devoted, and in the pursuit of which he has thus fallen a 

 sacrifice. (JBot. Mag. t. 3441., October, 1835.) 



Phlox Drummondzi Hook., a most beautiful species (see p. 586.), is one of 

 the last plants he sent home. 



