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Cautious, as becomes a man of high position in the financial world, he 
had that finest and most fertile kind of wisdom which springs no less 
from the heart than from the brain. Fairness of mind was so character- 
istic of him as to appear to be instinctive ; and never was that fairness 
shown more conspicuously than on those occasions when good argu- 
ments were urged against some course of action to which he was 
inclined. On such occasions he would sweep aside his own proposals 
with scarcely any ceremony. 
He was buried with simple ceremonial in the graveyard at Pembury 
in Kent, the Vicar of the Parish conducting the funeral. 
One by one the great figures in the horticultural world are passing. 
To them, and to the fine work they have done, the younger men 
owe it to emulate their example, and to see to it that the progress of 
British Horticulture, which we owe in great measure to men such as 
Mr. Gurney Fowler, shall be maintained and carried forward during 
the difficult years that lie before us. 
