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SE ( 
Fesroary 23, 1895. 
THE GARDENERS’ 
„and have already succeeded in raising 
n 
form of the calyx in Messrs, CANNELL’s plants is 
certainly like that of the wild plant, 
deltoid-lanoeolate entire lobes, as in some Ivies. 
Fro e time we first saw it in 1887 we have 
occasionally met with it in various collections : : 
ut it was not until a recent meeting of the 
Royal Horticultural Society that we saw it in 
flower in the collection of Messrs, Sutton, On 
Fic, 32.—ALTHÆA FICIFOLIA, 
— 
Our 
tony Present object, however, is to call atten- 
in 1887 Pe gee variety, which we first met om 
C nursery. This w. 
ik A 
ey which bie oh may 88 call the * 
a Fote glabro naso 
es being not only 
snan Gn Bes dividing into bell 
that occasion the Reading firm showed several 
plants of this variety, the leaves of some of which 
showed a tende o become fimbriated at the 
margin towards the base of the leaf, so that 
whilst the distal side of the leaf was marked with 
deep entire lobes, the basal portions were cut up 
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into fine fringe-like lobules, as in triple-curled 
Parsley (see fig. 31, p. 233). Even more in- 
THE LATE PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE OF 
SURGEONS,—Onr leading article will show why we 
make mention in these colum 
present write 
myrna, as well as at the front, and 
specimens from the se little- 
known district of the Crimea. Horxx received his 
medical education at King’s College, 1 was noted 
r 
whole career, 
as a pupil of Bowman he rose to 
ophthalmic surgeon, he deprecated specialism, and 
8 in the wake of his master, Fercuson, prac- 
tised general surgery to the last. It is not for us, in 
these columns, to follow his career at N s College 
at the Ophthalmic Hospital, and at t iddlesex 
—a career which culminated in the Eri of 
the Royal College of Surgeons, but w 
appropriately allude to h 
i the _ discoverer and describer of many 
aurian re Isle of Wight, dis- 
coveries that led to his election at one time as 
P t of Geological 
o trouble or 
self-sacrifice was too great for Seu when in charge 
pi an anxious or difficult * 
quarter London in the middle 
of N night to visit 3 e patient was 
no unusual occurrence sometimes induced the 
It 
t about hie death. Only 
men before su ey fe r the delivery of 
the rian Oration, HULKE cry occasion to visit 
a houpital patient in the night during the recent 
severe weather. The result was pneumonia, and 
death. Did ever soldier or martyr die a nobler 
death ? 
ALTHAA FICIFOLIA is a very old inbabitant of 
the books 
scientiousness that bro 
a few 
metallic-green as th 
lowish-cream-coloured. It is a hardy perennial, and 
may be grown under the same conditions as the 
Hollyhock. Our papi (fig. 32) was drawn ie 
Mr, W Gardens, Kew. 
ana specially 
N of the cell · nueleus. 
„ BaMBoos.—One of the most apie 
ua at Kew is the ga 
already mentioned in our columns, M e ia ay 
2 ee eee it a visit a 
s Tt ie, of course, full early to ascer- 
tain what damage the the prolonged frost may have 
