SEpT.-Ocr., 1920.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 137 
ees OBITUARY. Res 
- @OSEPH CHARLESWORTH.—Orchidology has sustained a severe 
J loss by the death of Mr. Joseph Charlesworth, head of the firm of 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Haywards: Heath, which took place on 
August 2nd last. The deceased, who was in his seventieth year, had 
suffered for some time from bronchial trouble, and had made arrangements 
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THE LATE MR. JOSEPH CHARLESWORTH. 
to go away for a rest and change, when a relapse occurred, and the end 
came rather suddenly from heart failure. To modern Orchidists, Mr. 
Charlesworth was known as one of our most enthusiastic and successful 
hybridists, but his early years were spent in connection with his father’s 
wool business, to which he ultimately succeeded, though a passion for 
Orchids afterwards changed his whole career. It must have been over 
thirty years ago that we first met Mr. Charlesworth in London, and we 
