Annals of Horticulture. 



Mr. Lecaron, one of the leading seedsmen and florists of 

 Paris, died at the age of 50 years. 



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Antoine Levet, the well-known rose-grower, died at Lyons, 

 France, August 21, aged 74 years. Many of Levet' s roses 

 are well-known in America, especially Perle des Jardins, Paul 

 Neyron, Reine Marie Henriette and F. Michelon. 



William McCorquodale, a well-known English forester and 

 one particularly well-acquainted with the coniferae, died April 

 17, aged 81 years. He was forester to the Earl of Mans- 

 field. 



Alexander W. McNaughton, of the Vineyard Nursery, 

 Banbury, England, died early in the year, aged 49 years. He 

 was particularly skillful in raising early and late grapes, and 

 was largely instrumental in developing the now flourishing 

 Chrysanthemum and Fruit Society. 



Frank Miles, who was so well known through his pictorial 

 sketches, died July 15, at the age of 40 years. He was an 

 enthusiastic lover of horticulture as well as of art, and he did 

 much to revive the taste for the cultivation of hardy peren- 

 nials, and especially of bulbous plants. 



Phillip Mathews, president of the York Horticultural 

 Society, died last August. 



Dr. C. J. Maximowicz, of St. Petersburg, Russia, died Feb- 

 ruary 16. This well-known botanist was everywhere recog- 

 nized as one of the leading scientists of his age, and his loss 

 will be severely felt. He paid particular attention to the flora 

 of Eastern Asia, especially to that of Japan ; and at the time of 

 his death he was engaged in describing the floras of Thibet, 

 central Asia and Mongolia. His collections from these coun- 

 tries are exceedingly rich ; they are deposited at Prjevalsky and 

 Potanin. 



J. F. Meston, one of the most able English landscape-gar- 

 deners, died at Brighton. 



