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Until this time my collection shall be preserved in sealed cases. In the 

 event of the Vienna Institution declining to observe these conditions, the 

 collection falls under the same conditions to the Botanical Garden at Up- 

 sala. Should the last-mentioned institution decline the legacy, then to the 

 Grayean Herbarium in Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. If declined 

 by that institution, then to the Jardin des Plantes, at Paris, but always 

 under the same conditions, viz., of being sealed up for twenty-five years, in 

 order that the inevitable destruction of the costly collection, resulting from 

 the present craze for orchids, may be avoided." 



Capt. J. H. Drummond, of Glen Ellen, California, died De- 

 cember 20th. He was a well known viticulturist, and for 

 many years he labored to advance the wine interests of Cali- 

 fornia. 



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Gabriel Marc, a prominent local horticulturist, of Wood- 

 side, N. Y., died early in the year. 



The committee on obituaries of the Society of American 

 Florists reports the following deaths since the fourth meeting 

 (August, 1888), not all of which occured in the present year : 

 Harry S. Garrow, Pittsburgh, Penn. ; H. B. Morse, Natick 

 Mass.; H. J. McGall, Orange, N. J.; D. Wilmot Scott, Ga- 

 lena, 111.; John Craig, London, Ontario. 



Robert Marnock. — The English journals announce the 

 death, in his ninetieth year, of Robert Marnock, the foremost 

 landscape-gardener who has appeared in England during the 

 second half of this century, and one of the best exponents of 

 the natural style. He served his apprenticeship as a gardener 

 and found his first public employment in designing the Shef- 

 field Botanic Garden, of which he became the first curator — 

 not a bad training for a landscape-gardener, and one which 

 led to his selection, in 1839, to lay out the garden of the Royal 

 Botanic Society in Regent's Park in London. This estab- 

 lished his reputation, and he has since been kept busy in the 

 practice of his profession until his retirement a very few years 

 ago. Marnock was strong in artistic feeling and in his practical 

 knowledge of plants; and here was the secret of his success. 

 The artist and the gardener worked together, and his creations 



