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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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For twelve Cyclamen, Mr. Meachen was Ist, Mr. 
E. A. Golding taking similar honours for six ditto, 
Te a single stand of table decorations, Mr. E. 
Meachen was placed before Mr. R. Miller, Mr. Miles 
following. 
A collection of — flowers N varieties) was 
close contest between Mr, Garn and Mr, Gore, 
the e being as — 9 
or a — was at nt ay Mr. J, Lewis, 37, Preston 
Crown and Anchor Hotel, 
— being ‘let and 2od, As tpn. 
were life-like but artificial flowers from Madame 
essrs, Cheal 
; . & goo 
garden 2 while Messre. Balchin & Son 
sual, occupied the 4. end of the 
—— with a gran ection of miscellaneous 
plants, consisting chiefly of ‘Orchids, Boronias, Ericas, 
e stage. 
and Hyacinths, They also decorated the 
ARREA, 
AS WoORTH.—After a brief illness 
— when that gentlem 
Orchids to the Liverpool Horticultural Co. for disposal 
r. Worth went with it and remained there, After 
some ame Orchid grower to the Company, 
and 
or the past two years he has acted as traveller 
for John Cowan & C 
Mg. WILLIAM DEAN, signa Birmingham, 
we name so long associated with the 
ulture the Pansy and Viola, died somewhat 
— on the evening of the 23rd inst., at the 
age of seventy years. During the 3 portion of 
a and bron- 
e before his 
death, he appeared to be hope fal a 3 3 
and was looking forward to the ith 
7 confidence, With a severe ape ad of his old com- 
, there was an absence of 8 to resist i 
Botan 
proved highly successful. bly took 
leading part in the exhibitions held in the "Botanical 
s grower, 
bis collection of 
Southwark Street. When 
went to the Chad Valley Narseries, 
Solihull, and r as m 
w Mill | 
Mr. W at the Hill Nursery. 
Sou 1 on Jay 8, 1825, — eldest of four 
landscape gardener in his day, While quite 225 
he was taken into the office, and so commenced h 
ey 5 career. In 1843, When l 
years of age, as engaged by Messrs. Scott Bros. 
as — an, at their Belfast nurseries, but as his 
youth and nationality did not 1 to be favour- 
he, after a short 
son, then of the Wellington Road nurseries, St, 
John’s 
Wood, ultimately becoming 
traveller. About 1851 he, in conjanction 
Somerville, who had charge of the laying-out 
department of the Wellington Road Nurseries, went 
into business at St. John’s Wood, but it was aban- 
year afte 
Tautai of the Wellington Road Nurseries, 
of blotched Pansies he had 
he would grow them for him, as they could not be 
successfully cultivated at St. John’s Wood; they 
were ra late M. Miellez of Lille, and they 
were 80 fine and distinct as to be in large demand, 
all the stock obtained at Shipley being sent to 
London. 
New sets came in 1859, 1860, and 1861, 
and then owing to the death of M. Miellez, the 
menced to 
rms, several of which were figured in the 
b December of that year; 
and though the older school of florists looked some- 
what askance at them, they won their way to popular 
siness at Shipley 
was continued for several years, but aband a about 
1876, ae to failing health and other causes; and 
Mr, Dean then came to London to take sa of the 
London branch of the Lawson Seed Company in 
this was given 2 he 
Edgbaston, as 
R. H. Vertegans, Oa leaving — he 
with Mr. Toomas Hewitt, nurseryman, 
anager to Messrs, A. Blizzard 
oman Solihull, Leaving here 
ia Road, parkhill, 
— t G of the Garden and 
appear, editor of the Ri Guide, until 
that monthly also ceased to one of 
the founders of the Old Na Monat Fioricultural 
Gardens, Edgbaston, sometimes g retary, Societ 
‘ A y, established 1851, 
particularly in connection with the Midland Car- dissolved in the — part ao ea Aso 
N and Picotee Society, as assistant to his ol Botanie Society announcing special 3 — 
riend, Mr. Robert 3 ham. His ices were making awards to new florists' flowe Mr. D 
z 2 ch r e p “te Son z horticultural exhi- was twice aving issue in both cases, i His 
wont neluding t ork Floral Fete, Wolver- — and 
dae, r a eae eee. us some of his children survive sas, 
ing horticultural rng and at the time of his ALEXANDER GOODM 
u . MAN More, MA, F. 
death was assisting Mr 1 Cue y, Highbury, MIRIA I is with much regret, i rel 2 
Birmingham, in bringing out a new edition of his F. W. Barbid we i 
book on Orchids and their death of. the ge pege —— Meri 
ork in connection with that flower 
naturalist and botanist, which took place at his 
residence, 74, Leinster Road, Dublin, on March 22, 
at the age of sixty-four, ` Mr, ore was a native of 
—— ˙¹i¹-ꝛ 
1 but had lived for many years in Ireland, 
Mr. More was fteen years senior Assistant ia 
the Dablin Natural History * and eventually 
the curatorship, frog 
also sent a most un- 
resting report of“ The Climate, Flora, and Cros f 
Ireland” to the International Royal H 
Society’s Exhibition held in London in 1866, ang 
published at p. * Ah * sal ith cultural Society's 
Report. Mr. M staking worker, asd 
one of 2% e highet , on the British and 
Irish flor 
TRADE NOTICE, 
FISHER, SON & SIBRAY, LIMITED, 
Tis company was registered on the 2lst inst, 
with a capital of £50,000, to take over the old- 
established business of nurserymen, and 
florists, carried on by the partners of Messrs, Fisher, 
Son, & Sibray, at Handsworth Nurseries, near 
Sheffield, Fitzalan Square, Sheffield, Church Street, 
Rotherham, and elsewhere. The first directors are 
Messrs, Charles Fisher, Ernest Edward Sibray, 
Joseph Walker, Walter Earl, and William Atkinson. 
THE WEATHER, 
(The term “accumulated temperature 
gate amount, as well —1 — tion, of degrees of 
n above or w 42° Fahr. for the period 
named: and this re result is expressed in Dar. Ț 
egrees —a ‘‘ Day-degree” si 1° continued 
——— . 
an inversely —— see umber of hours, | 
| TEMPERATURE, af 
8 ACCUMULATED, 2 : 3 
gts 1 
eau. D 2 8 | a P sA 
328 3 E 172 3. so 88 H 
253 3 3 33333 13 
8 83 22 “aj 3223287 8 Pole 52 
72 EEEE AREH 
Sa | oF | E gakgak] tg isra 
J 
E 3 2833 5" 8 
i 24 HURE 3 
Day- | Day - Day- Day- | 10 
og deg: des. dag Inch. 
0 4 + 25 10 — 43 T 308 6 + 
114 t 31 11 82 ＋ 437 2 — 
216 +| 43 9 — 63\+ 315 1 
35 +) 53 13 — 61|+ 3330 aver 
4 5 ＋＋ 53 1 — 8+ 418) 1 — 
5 4+ 46 11 — 102|+ 370 2 — 
665 + | 32 4 77\+ 378) 6 + 
7 2 + 7 — 76\+ 335/6 + 
8 3 ＋ 41 8 — 1220 T 367| 2 + 
9.5 +| 38 | o |— 104/4 788 3 + 
10 4 | 43 o — 154/ T 231) 4 + 
%% aver 29 3 — 1450 ＋T 255 4 
Th 
wether during this period ma wasi 1 
changeable in the west and north, with ’ 
of rain; the amoun 
the conditions were generally 
