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THI-: ORCHID WORl^J). 



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The late J. Gurney Fowler. 



J. GURNEY FOWLER. 



THE sudden death of Mr. J. Gurney 

 Fowler caused the deepest regret in 

 all sections of horticulture, for not 

 only did he prove of incalculable value in .the 

 financial matters of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society, but he was an enthusiastic cultivator 

 of Orchids as well as a keen appreciator and 

 successful grower of all that belongs to a 

 country garden. An attack of influenza, 

 followed by bronchitis and inflammation of 



the lungs, resulted m heart failure, and he 

 died at Brackenhurst, Pembury, on Monday 

 night, April 24th, at the age of 60. 



For more than twenty years Mr. Fowler 

 has been associated with Orchid culture. In 

 i8q8 he became a member of the R.H.S. 

 Orchid Committee, was made a Vice- 

 Chairman in igo2, and became Chairman in 

 1905. In the compilation and publication of 

 the "List of Orchid Awards, 1859-1915," he 

 produced a valuable and accurate work of 

 reference, and the annual additions which he 



