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Obituary Notices of Fellows deceased. 



hickory, or other hard-wood which he had planted 40 or 50 years before. 

 Visitors were numerous at Tortworth, and though he loved to show them 

 round himself, he was such a conscientious man in the performance of the 

 numerous public duties which he undertook, that he always seemed to be in 

 a hurry to get on the next tree or the next duty, so that one had to repeat 

 one's visits frequently in order to take in the knowledge he possessed. I well 

 remember telling him of a tree in Lord Bathurst's park which I could not 

 identify with certainty. He said " What is the use of your knowledge if you 

 cannot name a tree ? " and wrote to Sir J. D. Hooker to send down the late 

 Mr. Nicholson to name it; who, suspecting, as I did, that it was of hybrid 

 origin, identified it with Pyrus intermedia. But it was only after my personal 

 visit to Fontainebleau, and a week's work by Dr. Henry in the Kew Herbarium 

 that we came to the conclusion that it must be the same as what Gay and 

 other French botanists, many years before, had called the Service Tree of 

 Fontainebleau, Pyrus latifolia. 



"When Prof. C. S. Sargent of Boston and the late Dr. Asa Gray visited 

 Tortworth about 1880 they were shown three trees natives of California, which 

 neither of them had seen alive in their own country and which will not exist 

 in the climate of New England. Castanea chrysophylla, the Golden-leaved 

 Chestnut, was one of these, and though the Tortworth specimen is rather a 

 great bush than a tree, it has supplied seeds for years to all who asked for 

 them worthily ; for Lord Ducie was most liberal in distributing young trees 

 from his well-managed nursery. 



Though Lord Ducie was for many years a Vice-President of the Boyal 

 Horticultural Society, and was generally interested in local geology and 

 botany, he took no particular interest in other branches of horticulture, 

 though Tortworth is celebrated for its fruit. He was an active Volunteer from 

 the commencement of the movement, a distinguished marksman with the 

 match-rifle, a yachtsman who visited Norway on many occasions, until he lost 

 his steam yacht in a fjord there. He was for some years President of the 

 National Kitle Association, and a most indefatigable worker in all county 

 business. Though Lord Ducie had resisted the request of numerous friends to 

 compile or allow to be published a catalogue of his unique collection of living 

 trees, it is much to be hoped that such a fitting memorial of his life's work 

 may now be attempted. H. J. E. 



