CXCY111 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
29th March.— Robert Culling Hanbury, Esq., M.P., of 10 Upper Grosvenor 
Street, W., aged 44. 
30th March.-— Benjamin Cohen, Esq., of Asgill House, Richmond, Surrey, 
aged 78. Elected a Fellow of the Society 13th June 1834. 
30th March.—A. S. Pigeon, Esq., of 20 Westbourne Street, Hyde Park 
Gardens, W., aged 64. 
1st April.— John Gott, Esq., of Armley House, Leeds, aged 75. 
4th April.—- Lady Lister Kaye, of 17 Cromwell Road, South Kensing¬ 
ton, W. 
7th April.-— James Mackintosh, Esq., of The Lodge, Totteridge, Herts, 
aged 75. 
1-Oth April.—The Rev. George Cheere, M.A., of Papworth Hall, St. Ives, 
Hunts, aged 63. A Member of the Floral Committee of the Roj'al Horticultural 
Society. 
25th April.— Arthur Vardon, Esq., of Worth, Crawley, Susses, aged 61. 
Elected a Fellow of the Society 13th July 1847. 
26th April.— John Scott, Esq., of 4 Hyde Park Street, Hyde Park Square, 
W., aged 82. 
27th April.—Baron Llanoyer, of Llanover and Abercarn, SAY., and formerly 
the Eight Hon. Sir Benjamin Hall, of 9 Great Stanhope Street, Mayfair, 
aged 64. Elected a Fellow of the Society 7th August 1827 ; one of the first ten 
original subscribers to the Royal Botanic Society. Sir Benjamin was a great 
lover of flowers, and laid out his own gardens at Llanoyer, which are remarkable 
for the immense profusion of flowers out of doors. He never had a green¬ 
house, but was most successful in preserving thousands of cuttings in pits for 
planting out in the spring. He was very fond of the Fir-tree tribe, the 
Heodara, Wellingtonia, and Araucaria especially flourishing in his grounds, 
as well as other evergreens. He personally superintended the cultivation 
of his Roses, of which he had separate plantations. He also was very 
partial to Magnolias, and had many fine varieties growing at Llanover. 
Also Paulonias and the scarlet-berried elder (from the Black Forest in 
Germany), reared from seed sent by Frances Baroness de Bunsen, of which 
tree the late Sir William Hooker said it was most rare to see it flourish 
in Great Britain, and that it never succeeded at Kew. It is luxuriant at Llan¬ 
over, bearing profusely clusters of resplendent berries, the colour of scarlet 
sealing-wax. Lord LlanovePs gardens have numberless shrubs and trees 
raised from the seed brought by himself and Lady Llanover from Italy, Swit¬ 
zerland, and Germany. Among these there are Virginian Creepers and varieties 
of nuts. These gardens are remarkable for the combination of woodland 
scenery and native forest trees, especially the Holly, entwined with climbing 
Roses, and many flowering shrubs, with wide walks amidst scenes of sylvan 
beauty, intermingled with abundance of water—rapid brooks, pools, fountains, 
and numerous wells. 
May.—Miss Bligh, of 40 Alfred Place West, Thurloe Square, SAY. 
8th May.—The Hon. Lady Middleton, of 52 Grosvenor Place, S.W. 
26th May.— Robert Hall, Esq., of 1 Vicarage Gardens, Kensington, W. 
18th June.— William S. Sands, Esq., of Sunderland Villa, Westbourne 
Park : died at Windsor, aged 57, and was interred at Kensal Green Cemetery, 
22nd June 1867. 
19th June. —Edward Priest Richards, Esq., of Cardiff, aged 76. 
21st June.— William Henry Whitbread, Esq., of 10 Lowndes Square, S.W., 
and Southill, Bedfordshire, aged 72. Elected a Fellow of the Society 4th Decem¬ 
ber 1827. 
23rd June.—The Lady Stuart de Rotiisay, of 45 Grosvenor Place, SAY., 
aged 78. 
