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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
r November, 
- ^HE best mode of Plcmting Water Lilies is to procure some old, shallow, 
flat baskets, such as nurserymen use for packing plants, and in these to plant the 
thick, fleshy rhizomes, using strong loamy soil, and ramming it in firmly. 
Then drop the basket into the spot where the lilies are intended to grow. This can be 
done at any time during the resting season—say, from November till April—during open 
weather. This is a better plan than attempting to sink the stems into the muddy 
bottom by means of stones, or other heavy weights. 
- Thomas Eivers, of Sawbridgeworth, died on October 17, aged 79. 
Eipe in years, esteemed by his fellows, and with the happy consciousness of duty 
fulfilled and work well done, there has in Mr. Rivers passed away from amongst us 
one of the greatest horticulturists of this or any former age. To him we owe the intro¬ 
duction of root-pruning and lifting of fruit trees, double grafting, orchard-houses, 
cordon training, ground-vineries, and the Manetti stock, as well as constant experiments 
in the cross-breeding improvement and selection of fruits. His experiments, moreover, 
were carried on with true scientifio method, and recorded with scientific accuracy, on 
which account, as well as for the interesting results obtained, he must ever hold a high 
place among vegetable physiologists. Though a keen man of business, he was no mere 
commercial horticulturist, pursuing his art for personal advantages only, but was fully 
as much guided by a love of truth and a desire to seek it where it might be found. A 
few years since, his portrait, a votive offering from some of those friends who admired 
the man and respected his achievements, was presented to the Trustees of the Lindley 
Library, and now hangs in the Council-room of the Royal Horticultural Society. 
- #Tr. Robert Heward, F.L.S., died on Oct. 24, at the advanced age 
of 85. He was passionately fond of gardening and botany, and in early life, when 
the Horticultural Society of London had its first garden at Kensington, filled the 
position of garden clerk, which office he held until after the Society’s removal to Chiswick. 
Subsequently he went to Jamaica as manager of a coffee plantation, and on his return 
published some valuable notes on the ferns of that island, in a paper printed in the 
Magazine of Natural History for 1838. When again domiciled in England, he was for 
many years connected with the London press, and subsequently held an appointment in the 
Colonial Office. He was on terms of intimate friendship with the Australian botanical 
explorers, Richard and Allan Cunningham, and inherited, by will, the collections of New 
Holland plants amassed by the latter. Of these plants, the typical set was a few years 
since presented by Mr. Heward to the Kew Herbarium. He had an extensive knowledge 
of Ferns, of which he made an especial study, and one genus of these elegant plants 
was named Heivardia in his honour, by his old and attached friend, John Smith, of Kew. 
- PlR. John Richards, gardener to Baron Lionel de Rotliscliild, died at 
Gunnersbury, on July 18, aged 51. In his younger days he underwent training 
for the profession at the Birmingham Botanic Gardens, at Trentham, at Shrubland 
Park, and at Woburn, whence he was appointed gardener to Lord Londesborough, at 
Grimston Park, where he remained 16 years. On leaving this, he took charge of the 
gardens at Stoke Park, Slough, and moved thence to Gunnersbury, where he remained till 
his death,—a period of about seven years. He had a good reputation as a gardener. 
- Filippo Parlatore died full of honours on September 9, 
in his 61st year. He was Professor of Botany and Director of the Royal 
Museum of Natural History, &c., at Florence, and was regarded as one of the 
highest authorities on the Coniferas, the descriptions of that order published in De 
Candolle’s “ Prodromus ” being from his pen. 
- HJr. Richard Webb, of Galoot, near Reading, died on July 26. He 
was the owner of one of the largest and most interesting nut-gardens in the 
country, and was the raiser of several new varieties* 
