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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ April 27, 1882. 
gent’e heat ; by this means a large stock is quickly produced. If 
potted after they are rooted they are invaluable for planting 
amongst beds of dwarf or standard Roses where the former are 
not planted so closely as to cover the whole of the ground. These 
early-flowering kinds being small growers do not in consequence 
rob the Rose bed or border to any serious extent, as would be the 
case with those of stronger growth. It is almost an impossibility 
to estimate the beauty of a bed or border of the pure white Phlox 
Miss Robertson or Her Majesty—the latter having fragrant flowers 
—when flowering profusely. The Marquis of Lome, white with 
rose eye, and the dark rose-coloured Waverley, are by no means to 
be despised for planting in masses.— Scientia. 
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N@m»GLEPNGS. 
At a general meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, 
held on Tuesday last, Maxwell T. Masters, Esq., M.D., in the chair, 
the following candidates were elected Fellows :—Miss Agatha 
Chapman, Miss Crossman, Reginald C. Foster, Mrs. Clark Ken¬ 
nedy, Henry G. Morison, Major-General Power, Ralph Richard¬ 
son, M.D. 
- Referring to the Matricaria eximea aurea crispa, 
mentioned by Mr. J. C. Forster on page 321 of this Journal, Mr. 
W. H. Gower of Tooting writes :—“ I have plants now coming into 
fine character, the foliage being as rich in colour as the common 
Golden Feather, and the leaves are beautifully crisped like the 
finest Parsley. I consider it a first-class novelty, and one which 
will come into general favour when better known.” 
- We are informed that the annual Show of the Fareiiam 
and South Hants Horticultural Society will be held on 
Coronation-day, June 28th. 
- “A Kitchen Gardener” writesThose who have 
been troubled with mealy bug on Vines last year may have 
done all they could to exterminate it during the winter, but it is 
very doubtful if they have succeeded, and as the Vines commence 
growth a few insects may be found about the canes. Then it is 
easy to destroy them, and the Vines should be examined daily for 
this purpose, as by-and-by it will not be so easily done.” 
- The Northamptonshire Chrysanthemum Society 
will hold their annual Show in the Corn Exchange at Northamp¬ 
ton on November 22nd and 23rd. Numerous prizes will be offered, 
including four silver cups value two to three guineas each. Cut 
blooms, miscellaneous plants, fruit and vegetables, are also well 
provided for. 
- The Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress will hold a 
Grand Rose Show, on the 29th June, at the Mansion House, 
in aid of the pr®posed Scarlet Fever Convalescent Home, and of 
the Royal Hospital for Women and Children, Waterloo Bridge 
Road. The Exhibition will consist of ten thousand Roses from 
the gardens of the principal growers, arranged with Ferns and 
other accessories in an artistic manner. There will also be con¬ 
tributions by amateur growers, among them some of the leading 
citizens, who have taken up the idea with great spirit, and who, 
at a recent meeting at the Mansion House, promised the Lord 
Mayor their hearty support in the preparations. Amongst the 
bodies represented will be the Stock Exchange, the Corn and Coal 
Exchange, the Commercial Sale Rooms, &c. The Lord Mayor 
has entrusted the arrangements to Mr. J. Forsyth Johnson, 
Horticultural Director of the Alexandra Palace. We trust this 
Exhibition, instituted for such worthy objects, will be a great 
success. 
- We are desired to announce that the complimentary 
dinner and Presentation to Mr. Thomas Moore on his retire¬ 
ment from the Gardeners' Chronicle will take place at the 
Cannon Street Hotel on Tuesday, May 23rd. Evening dress will 
not be required. Tickets (21s. each) may be obtained on appli¬ 
cation to the Hon. Sec., Mr. Shirley Hibberd, 15, Brownswood 
Park, London, N. 
- On Wednesday, the 19th inst., one of the greatest natural¬ 
ists of the present century, Mr. Charles Darwin, died at his 
residence, Down House, near Farnborough, Kent, at the age of 
seventy-three. Mr. Darwin devoted much of his time to the 
study of plants as well as other branches of natural history, and 
a brief review of his life will doubtless be interesting to many. 
He was born on February 12th, 1809, at Shrewsbury. His father 
was Dr. R. W. Darwin, F.R.S., his grandfather Dr. Erasmus 
Darwin, F.R.S., author of “ The Botanic Garden,” “Zoonomia,” 
and other works. In 1825 Darwin left Shrewsbury for Edinburgh, 
where be attended the University lectures for a period of two 
years, at the end of which he entered at Christ College, Cambridge. 
He took his degree in 1831, and shortly afterwards accompanied 
Captain Fitzroy, in H.M.S. Beagle, on a voyage of circumnaviga¬ 
tion. This voyage has been described by himself in one of the 
most delightful works in the English language, “A Journal of 
Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various 
Countries visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the 
World.” On his return from this voyage Mr. Darwin especially 
applied his attention to the investigation of the phenomena 
connected with the origin of species, which he pursued with 
great care for many years, and in the meantime published an 
elaborate and exhaustive scientific work entitled “ A Monograph 
of the Family Cirripedia.” In 1859 followed his great work on 
the Origin of Species. In 1862 he published his remarkable work 
on the fertilisation of Orchids; and in 1867 his “Domesticated 
Animals and Cultivated Plants, or the Principles of Variation, 
Inheritance, Reversion, Crossing, Iuterbreeding, and Selection 
under Domestication.” In 1872 appeared “The Expression of 
the Emotions in Man and Animals;” in 1875, “Insectivorous 
Plants ;” in 1876, “Cross and Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable 
Kingdom ;” and in 1877, “Different Forms of Flowers in Plants 
of the same Species.” Only last year appeared his work on Earth¬ 
worms, in which he traced the operations of worms in gradually 
covering the surface of the globe with a layer of mould ; and as 
recently as last month he sent two papers upon botanical sub¬ 
jects before the Linnean Society. Darwin received the gold 
medal of the Royal Society in 1S53, and the Wollaston Palladian 
Medal of the Geological Society in 1859. In 1875 the University 
of Leyden conferred upon him the honorary degree of M.D., and 
in 1877 the University of Cambridge made him a Doctor of Laws. 
He married in 1839 the grand-daughter of Josiah Wedgwood, 
F.R.S., the well-known manufacturer of artistic earthenware. 
Mr. Darwin was interred yesterday in Westminster Abbey, the 
Abbey being crowded with a sympathetic audience. The pall¬ 
bearers were the Duke of Devonshire ; the Duke of Argyll; Mr. 
J. R. Lowell, the American Minister; Mr. W. Spottiswoode, 
President of the Royal Society ; Sir J. D. Hooker, late President; 
Mr. Alfred Russell Wallace; Professor Huxley ; Sir John Lubbock, 
President of the Linnean Society ; and the Rev. Canon Farrar. 
Thus has terminated a career of unusual devotion to science truly 
so called, and an intellect of the highest order. In disposition 
Mr. Darwin was singularly modest and amiable, and, as Canon 
Liddon has remarked, an earnest worker in “ the universal triumph 
of truth.” 
- At the meeting of the Meteorological Society on the 19th 
inst., Mr. J. K. Laughton, F.R.A.S., President, in the chair, a 
paper was read on the “Barometric Gradients, Wind Velo¬ 
city, and Direction at the Kew Observatory,” by G. M. 
Whipple, B.Sc., F.R.A.S., F.M.S., and T. W. Baker, F.M.S. For 
