OcTOBER, 1915,| THE ORCHID REVIEW. 305 
Bera OBITUARY. 
W. HARVEY.—We learn with deep regret of the death, on Aucust 
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. 31st, of Mr. F. W. Harvey, Editor of The Garden, at the early age of 
33 years, after an operation for abscess on the brain. Our contemporary 
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remarks: ‘‘ Mr. Harvey had been ailing slightly for a few days, when his 
illness was diagnosed as an abscess on the brain. An immediate operation 
Fig. 39. THE LATE Mr. F. W. Harvey. 
was necessary, from which he did not long rally, and he succumbed a week 
later, on Tuesday, August 31st. . . . We feel sure that our readers 
and Mr. Harvey’s innumerable friends in the horticultural world will echo 
our feelings of sincere regret at his untimely end. He was a most lovable, 
upright, and conscientious man, and with his death a deal of valuable 
knowledge goes out of the world.” Mr. Harvey was a native of Stebbing, 
Essex, and commenced his horticultural career with Mr. Philpott, a seed 
and fruit grower, and during this time he attended the classes in 
horticulture of the County Technical Laboratories at Chelmsford. He was 
then selected as under gardener at the Experimental Garden there, where 
