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THE FLORIST AND POxMOLOGIST. 
■wards of a century, and where we have still 
several acres of freehold, upon which are 
erected our greenhouses, warehouses, and 
offices. 
“ The land upon which the buildings you 
alluded to are being erected belongs to a 
charity, and our old lease having expired, the 
Commissioners of Charity would not relet the 
and for nursery purposes.—'We are, &c., 
J. & C. Lee.” 
Cinchona Culture at Darjeeling. —The 
total number of plants in the government 
plantations on the 14th of June, 1863, was 
6350, and the number on the 15th of July, 1864, 
was 19,516. Since last year the cultivation 
of Cinchona has been successfully commenced 
by two private individuals near Darjeeling, 
the plants having been obtained partly from 
Ootacamund and Ceylon. In one case the 
cultivation is carried on on a scale which it is 
evidently intended to extend with the increase 
of the plants. An European gardener conducts 
the operation, and the plants in the nursery 
already exceed 1000. 
OBITUARY. 
M. Kickx, Professor of Botany at the Uni¬ 
versity of Ghent, died there suddenly on the 
1st of September last, in his sixty-second 
year, after having filled the chair for twenty- 
nine years, having been appointed to it in 
1835. He laboured assiduously for several 
years on a work on the Cryptogamic Flora of 
Flanders, and was about to publish it at the 
time of his death. He is succeeded by his 
only son, M. Jean-Jacques Kickx. 
Mr. John Lawrence, for upwards of forty- 
one years gardener to Sir Diehard and Sir 
John Simeon, at St. John’s, near Hyde, Isle 
of Wight, died in the early part of last month. 
He was a native of Aberdeenshire, and brought 
up in the Earl of Aberdeen’s gardens at Haddo 
House, in which several excellent practical 
gardeners have been trained. Hosv much he 
was respected is shown by the following ex¬ 
tract, in the Isle of Wight Times , of a letter 
written by his master to a friend:—-“It is 
impossible to exaggerate the loss my poor 
old friend is to me, or to overrate his many 
admirable qualities. No family was ever 
more honoured by the service of a more 
faithful and affectionate friend than he was to 
my father and myself.” 
Though we have from time to time looked 
over numerous foreign periodicals for the 
losses which the horticultural world has sus¬ 
tained, the names of some eminent botanists 
have escaped us, and these we take on the 
authority of the Gardeners' Chronicle. Among 
them are Professor Treviranus, of Bonn, 
who died in May last; and Dr. Hermann 
Schacht, Professor of Botany, and Director 
of the Botanic Garden of the same University, 
who died in August. He had acted as assistant 
to Dr. Schleiden, and was the author of a 
treatise on Botany, and another on the use of 
the microscope. Siebold, whose name is so 
well known in connection with his botanic 
researches in Mexico and Cuba, died in July 
last, at Havannah; and Junghuhn, the In¬ 
spector of the Dutch Cinchona plantations in 
Java, and M. Cruger, the Superintendent of 
the Trinidad Botanic Garden, died, the former 
in April, the latter in February. 
Lastly, ere this reach our readers, the year 
1864 will have passed away. At its outset 
foreign war seemed impending, and sore dis¬ 
tress prevailed in the manufacturing districts 
of the north; but happily the one has been 
averted, the other in a large measure alleviated, 
and horticulture has not languished, as it is 
apt to do when the attention of its votaries is 
distracted by such calamities. 1865 comes 
with brighter prospects ; may it prove to each 
and all— 
A HAPPY NEW YEAR. 
CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS. 
STOVE. 
Seize spare time to look carefully over the 
plants for insects; plants are easily cleared of 
them, if well looked over at this season. Keep 
the night temperature as low as is consistent 
with the safety of the plants; in very severe 
frosty weather 55° will be quite high enough 
at night. Do not let the atmosphere get too 
dry from fire heat. Attend very carefully to 
the watering. Give air on all fine days. 
CONSERVATORY AND SHOW-HOUSE. 
As very little fire heat has been required 
here up to the present time, and the weather 
during the autumn just passed has been every¬ 
thing we could wish for, plants ought now to 
be in good condition; they should show, not 
present growth, but the season’s growth 
thoroughly matured; if in this state we may 
confidently look forward fora brilliant display 
of bloom the coming season. Camellias, 
Acacias, and other plants in flower, or ad¬ 
vancing into bloom, will require to be attended 
to in watering. Tulips, Hyacinths, and other 
bulbs, also forced shrubs, should be placed at 
the warmest end of the house; Heaths, 
Epacrises, and other hardwooded plants in 
flower, should be placed at the coolest end. 
The Amaryllis is a charming tribe, and with 
a little management easily got to flower at 
this season. Luculia gratissima is a beautiful 
thing for the conservatory; it should be grown 
at the warmest end of the house. Epiphyllums, 
Bletias, Justicias, Euphorbias, Poinsettias, 
and other stove plants, should be kept at the 
warmest end. Introduce a good many Prim¬ 
ulas, some Cinerarias, a few pots of Mig- 
