Marcu 9, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
307 
Parisian life, whose name it now best commemo- 
rates; and we are glad of the erage to 1 
zome facts concerning him, whic are 
indebted to our correspondent, 1 Edward 
aris. 
François Boursault was born in Paris in 
Dictionnaire Larousse, 
is in 1842, He was 
Boursault, a poet and 
n 
Jean 
o run 
the risk of having hissed, he adopted that of Mal- 
herbe, which he retained as long as he continued on 
the stage. Boursault established a French theatre 
at Palermo, but being unfortunate, and his affairs 
involved, he took advantage 
din i 
e 
water, as a wit succeeded 
admirably, A crowd collected, the curiosity of the 
king was excited, and Malherbe, who had been 
fished from the water, was brought before him, 
His street-cleaning 
contract and the gambling-houtee, which he obtained 
and he 
Comique. 
Was on the point x ae but eventually was 
to save his fortune. After this, with the ca 
oursault sol 
s able 
ricious- 
ere the Hoke t 
and beat stocked in Franee, and — in Europe; 
destroyed his park, building on its site two rows of 
houses, which now form the Rue Boursault. This 
Was his last fantasy and his last undertaking, for he 
died shortly af ee leaving a large fortune. 
Obituary, 
Ma. R. B. Lainp.—The death occurred on the 
morning of Monday, March 4, Er mi ee, of 
Mr. R. B. Laird, senior partner the firms 
R. B. Laird & Son nz, nurserymen, bieten, and 
W. P. Laird & Sinclair, Dundee. An affect ion 
of the heart, w 
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© 
mn 
arth 
the busine : was Tred on 
bee. London, and £}¢éenksem, 
—— 
under n e 
title of Downie, Laird & Laing. At the disso- 
t 
0 in apap where another branch was estab- 
hed. n of strong individuality, with excellent 
mt capabilities, and of a genial and amiable 
disposition, Mr. Laird was widely known in the hor- 
ticultural world, and was one of the 3 links 
between the past and present generation of h aa 
culturists. By many gardeners, old and young, h 
will not soon be forgotten. He was always ready fo 
lend a 2 hand to those in need of assistance, 
and h much time in doing what he could to 
fatter the Aire of 9 8 and to get 
them a start in life. He was one of eee N of 
the Dalry pelt ee Church rrm 
original eld For man e wasa caren 
of the Seat Trade Protection Society. Scotsman, 
Tuesday, March 5, 
THOMAS BAINES.—We greatly regret to an- 
nounce the death of Mr, Thomas Baines, a per- 
sonality well known to horticulturists in most parts 
of the country as a first-class cultivator of plants, an 
exhibitor of renown in former days, and latterly a 
successful landscape-gardener. The deceased had 
been in failing health for the past two years, and 
fell a victim to the prevailing epidemic of influenza, 
He died at his residence a ottage, Palmer’s 
Green, N, on Saturday, March 2, at the age of 
seventy-two years, and was buried at the Great 
Northern 4 W. on the 7th inst. We publish 
aji extracts from an article — t appeared under 
he — “ British Gardeners” in these pages on 
ne 6, 1875, which Ar nit, a portrait of 
m as he then appeared :— 
He was born in J aia 1823, in the then entrance- 
lodge to Claughton Hall, the seat of the Brockholes, 
of Claughton, in North Lancashire, one of the 
oldest families in the country, they having been in 
shire, traces the Baines family on the estate for 400 
years, His great-grandfather, Thomas Baines, whom, 
of the present James Fitzherbert Brock- 
holes, His grandfather served his time in the 
garden at Claughton, and held the head-gardener’s 
situation for fifty years; and = father was also 
1 eee up to the professi 
„From early childhood,” erties Mr. . in the 
n 4 gio ‘h accompanied his portrait, “I was pas- 
e, fond of gardening, My first essay, and 
the one most indelibly fixed upon my memory, 
occurred when I was ab years of age, 
then assisted my mo 8 
se days little 
chance of a youngster trying his 3 at the walls 
until he was gufficiently initi in the work of 
the kitehen or in the houses, until he 2 
something considerable about both. In m 
the old establishments, fruit and vegetable dics 
were the chief considerations, with suc ts 
sufficed for decorative pur and to furnish the 
comparatively amall Pn cut flowers which 
as then made. N fewer subjects to deal with, 
the 8 men learnt their culture, especially the 
ings of a eee w at N very thoro oughly. 
of plants, and = the 
summer of 1842 w sia 
corymbiflora ; railroads were not so plentiful 1 as 
now, neither was the money to spend in riding over- 
abundant, so that young men situated as I W. 
thought little of using their legs.” 
was, 
At that time much landscape-work was being done 
at Claughton, including draining, a a subject then not 
much understood or practised. Seams operations, on 
a large scale, much interested y g Baines, and 
him, as he said, an — 9 — — to 
observe how it was don 
The high- farming i “Clau ughton also interested 
him much, especially ia connection with stock. 
Through those early years he went regularly to a 
night-school, 
he narrative continues: “I en engaged 
a paer o S. L. Behrens, Esq., of Catteral 
House, near r in Lancashire, an 
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p 
2. 
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a 
eater, Here Mr. 
Behrens became extremely fond of plants, and we soon 
got together a nice collection of Orchids, Heaths, 
stove, greenhouse, and fine - foliage plants, 72 Ferns, 
as well as most of the best florist flowers of the da ay, 
including Auriculas, Dahlias, Pansies, Pinks, Carna- 
tions, and Hollyhocks, These latter, although never 
exhibi 
ven to the providing of stands 
sed tor exhibition, and in which 
75 1 on the tables 
n had a more e 
fsty-raned eye or better Ais as re the 
appreciation of form and colour, either in a palatine. 
a well- rde ome or a ate woe 
Er service for seven 
then 
A . the collection of plants I had charge 
and afterwards at Southgate. Mr. 
wickets was exceedingly s . = his garden, and 
took the greatest delight hing the growth of 
the plants, from their ee ee up to the time 
of Sherr full dev elopment 
0 Mr, Micholls removed from Bowdon to 
Southgate House, near Lo ndon, to which place I 
it, and the dispersion of the plants.” 
Mr, Baines was a very ¢ writer on a e 
variety of h e subjects, and had been for 
long series of years a correspondent of thin jouraal, 
54 was the r of a useful book of reference 
en and Stove Plants, which was 
N in 1885. 
test 
COVENT GARDEN, 
We cannot 3) 
reports. ee a canes Se on y ev 
Thursday, by the kindness of several of the principal 
esm: — — 2 list, and who responsible 
‘or the It must be at — 
fi 
quotat — do oy 1 the —2 on any particular 
day, ried 12 — general r one wipe — 2 3 
repo) 
—— of he. samples, the — in the — a the 
demand; and fluctuate, not only from da ay to 
day, but often ban Birger times in one e da ay. Ep. 
OUT FLOWERS, —AVERAGE WHOLESALE PRICES. 
1. d. s.d. 2. d. 2. d 
Arums, dox. bl. a 0-6 0} lao Pheas 
Azalea, or. Sp sprays 0 6-1 0 ed, 12 bun 9 0-15 0 
Bouvardias, p. bun. 0 6-10 — Pa white, 
Carnations, 12 blms. 6- 30 p. un. . . 8 0-10 0 
Chrysanthemums, | Orchids :— 
per 12 10-40 Cattleya, 12blms. 6 0-12 0 
— perl2 bunches 4 0- 8 0 Odon toglossum 
— 1c:thie E in . 
dozen bunches ... 1 
— single, doz. bun. 24 0-30 0 Roses, Tea, per doz. 10-20 
ucharis, per d 2810 Tane T 
Prece e » 01-10) — — 3 1814 
eee „„ 
Lilac (French), per : per — yor 
verge i Gordon 10-20 
Lilies of the Valley, ee 12 ben. 10-16 
pean Ae Stephanotis, dozen 
ikem = or, «0-60 
„ 40-60) „erde 13 bime, 04-06 
F ni yy Violets, Parma . 5 0 
. 10-30) (French), p. beh. 
Mignonette, 13ban, 20-40) per bunch . 19-20 
Mimosa (French), |. 10 — doz. bunches 2 6-30 
N (English), Per. 0 
let, per 12 bunches 4 0- 6 0 
— 12 sprays . 06-09 í 
; variety. 
