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Orphan Fund, and a Vice-President of the Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent 
Institution, to which he contributed a very handsome donation when an 
effort was being made to increase its funds. In 1893 he presided at the 
annual festival of the Institution. 
Among the beautiful Orchids which will commemorate the Baron’s 
name we may mention the rare and striking Miltonia Schroederiana, 
Masdevallia Schroederiana, Cattleya Schroederiana, and Cypripedium X 
Baron Schréder. 
The funeral took place at the Cemetery, Englefield Green, on Thursday, 
April 28th, and was attended by Sir Trevor Lawrence, President of the 
Royal Horticultural Society, and other representatives of horticulture. 
MEMORIAL TO BARON SCHRODER.—Instead of sending to Baron 
_Schréder’s funeral a wreath of flowers which would fade in a day, the 
secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society will advise the Council to 
establish a Pensionership of £20 a year, for five years, under the regulations 
of the Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Institution, ‘‘In memory of Baron 
Schréder.”’ 
WILLIAM DeENNiING.—Another of the older generation of Orchidists 
passed away on April 2nd in the person of Mr. William Denning, who for 
so many years had charge of the fine collection of Orchids of Lord 
Londesborough, at Grimston Park, Tadcaster. He commenced his 
gardening career about 1850, and after gaining experience in various places, 
including Kew, which he left in 1856, he was appointed head gardener to 
Lord Londesborough, whose Orchid collection was once famous. Here it 
was that, in 1876, he succeeded in flowering, for the first time in England, 
the remarkable Odontoglossum Londesboroughianum, a plant which still 
puzzles most of those who possess it. Another plant described from the 
collection in 1872 was Odontoglossum Denisonz, and which Mr. Denning 
considered to be a natural hybrid between O. crispum (with which it was 
imported) and O. hystrix. Mr. Denning was a very skilful grower of plants 
and fruit, and a frequent exhibitor at the meetings of the R.H.S. in the 
seventies and eighties. He was subsequently with the Londesborough 
family at Kingston Hill, Surrey, and about 1887 he settled at Hampton, 
Middlesex, as a market florist. For fifteen years he was an active member 
of the Hampton Urban District Council, and was taken ill with a paralytic 
seizure after speaking at a meeting held on March 8th, from which he never 
recovered. He reached the age of 75 the day before his death. He took 
an active part in forming the Royal Gardeners’ Orphan Fund, and up to 
the time of his death was a member of the Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent 
Institution. His name. is commemorated in Lycaste Denningiana, a 
striking Ecuadorean species named after him by Reichenbach in 1876. 
