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Anthony Cook, Jr., a well known florist of Baltimore, 

 died in that city Saturday, December 31, 1892, of pneumonia, 

 aged 48 years. Mr. Cook had given special attention to the 



Henry Currier, of the fruit firm of H. Currier & Co., Bos- 

 ton, died at Somerville, Mass., October 4. He was born at 

 Walden, Vermont, September 26, 1818. He was one of the 

 oldest and best known merchants of the Boston fruit trade. 



P. C. Dempsey, a well known Canadian horticulturist, died 

 August 27. He originated, among other varieties, the Tren- 

 ton apple and Dempsey pear. 



James C. Duffey, assistant In horticulture in the Missouri 

 Botanical Gardens, died near the close of the year at St. 

 Louis. Mr. Duffey had been assistant in horticulture in the 

 South Dakota Agricultural College, and had refused a full pro- 

 fessorship there. He graduated from tin: Michigan Agricul- 

 tural College in 1887. Mr. Duffey was born in i860 in Penn- 

 sylvania. At St. Louis he had entered upon his work with 

 zeal, and had begun to attract the attention of the horticul- 

 tural and entomological world. 



Orrin P. Ford died in Boston, October 3. Mr. Ford was 

 a member of the fruit firm of J. F. Kimball & Co., and a 

 prominent man in the trade of that city. 



Dr. Allen Furnas, one of*the most influential horticul- 

 turists of Indiana, died during the year. 



W. J. Gordon, owner of the*well known Gordon rose houses 

 at Glenville, O., died November 23. A part of his great for- 



pleasure ground which he gave to the city of Cleveland. 



