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Benjamin Coles Townsend, Bay Ridge, New York [Long 

 Island], died January 13, 1891, at 73 years of age. He was 

 a retired business man, but was passionately devoted to flori- 

 culture, and was once president of the New York Horticultural 

 Society. 



Dominicus Wegman, president of the Foreign Fruit Ex- 

 change of the City of New York since 1888, died August 28. 

 Mr. Wegman was born in Bavaria in 1834, and came to this 

 country at the age of 16. He won an enviable reputation in 

 the fruit business of New York, and was known as the 

 " Father of the Fruit Trade," because of the fatherly interest 

 which he took in the younger merchants. 



Leo Weltz, a well-known horticulturist and nurseryman of 

 Ohio, died during the year. He was prominent in horticul- 

 tural enterprises, and was once sent by the government to 

 Russia to report upon the resources of that and adjacent 

 countries. 



ABROAD. 



A. Alphand, the author of "The Parks, Gardens and 

 Promenades of Paris, ' ' died December 5, at the age of 74 years. 



John Anderson Anderson, one of the leading promoters 

 of the Scottish Arboricultural Society, and a recognized au- 

 thority on the coniferae, died December 6, aged 80 years. 



Leon Aurange, a prominent horticulturist of Cannes, 

 France, died in March. He wrote considerably for the Revue 

 Horticole and other French papers. 



Ambrose Balfe died December 8, aged 77 years. Mr. 

 Balfe was for many years the secretary of the Royal Horticul- 

 tural Society of Ireland, and he held this office until a short 

 time before his death. He also edited and contributed to the 

 horticultural columns of the Irish Farmers' Gazette for many 

 years. 



