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August Francois Hardy, director of the Horticultural 

 School of France, at Versailles, and one of the most promi- 

 nent horticulturists of that country, died November 24. He 

 held the important post of first vice-president of the National 

 Horticultural Society. 



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Cardinal Lud. Haynald, a celebrated botanist, died at the 

 age of 75 years. His best-known work is "The Plants of the 

 Bible." 



F. Herincq died at the age of 71 years. He had been 

 editor of the Z' Horticulteur Francais, and collaborator on the 

 " Manuel des Plantes," by Jacques. 



Dr. Hermann Hoffmann, director of the botanic gardens 

 at Giessen, died October 26, aged 73 years. He was well- 

 known as the most successful of all students of phenology. 



Mr. Ingelrest, landscape-gardener of Ghent, died early 

 in the year. 



Dr. L. Just, professor of botany at the Carlsruhe Polytech- 

 nicum, died August 30. He was also director of the Botanic 

 Garden at Carlsruhe, and the founder of the well-known bo- 

 tanical publication, Botanischer Jahresbericht. 



Edward Kemp, of Birkenhead, England, died March 2, 

 aged 74 years. He was an able landscape-gardener, and his 

 book, " How to Lay Out a Garden," ran through three edi- 

 tions. This work is still the best concise general book on 

 landscape-gardening, even for America. 



Albert Kletschke, a well-known and highly-respected Ger- 

 man horticulturist, died April 4, aged 66 years. 



Franz Kramer, who for thirty years had charge of one of 

 the most prominent collections of orchids in Europe — that of 

 Legationsrath Rucker-Jenisch of Flottbeck-Hamburg — died 

 November 22. 



