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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[January, 
by R. C. Ravenscroft, which is one of the best 
books of its class we have met with—clear, concise, 
and judicious. The author first points out the 
difficulties of battling with the impure elements— 
smoke, dust, &c.—of such situations, the possible 
absence of light, and the usually unwholesome and 
unworkable soil, and urges the necessity of manuring 
both for vegetable and flower culture. Both outdoor 
and indoor gardening receive attention, and not only 
are useful instructions given for the cultivation of 
the several objects, but good selections of the different 
classes of plants are given. Even the Grape Vine is 
not forgotten, for it is truly said to make “when 
properly cultivated, the best of all climbers under 
glass,” and as truly it is added, that “ fine fruit can 
be grown and ripened in any: town.” There are 
sundry orthographical inaccuracies—thus on one page 
we read of the “ Cuba, or variegated Laurel,” oppo¬ 
site a paragraph devoted to the Aucuba, but slips of 
this sort are rare, and do not mar the general utility 
of the book, which is worthy of being strongly re¬ 
commended to town gardeners. All that they want 
to know at the outset of their career as such, they 
will find in this well written and neatly printed pocket 
volume. 
— <H. new Vine Pest has made its appear¬ 
ance on the Continent in the shape of a minute 
fungus, the Peronospora viticola of Berkeley, 
the dangers of which are said to be far more serious 
even than those of Phylloxera. As regards the 
latter, no less than 34 communes in the district of 
Chamberry (Savoie) are now infected with it. 
— {JThere is a rich store of Indian Primulas 
yet to find their way to our gardens. The 
last number of the Journal of the Linnean 
Society contains a paper referring to many of these 
undescribed and imperfectly known species, and is 
illustrated by numerous plates containing figures of 
some twenty-six species, many of which appear likely 
to be welcome additions to our existing collections. 
P. Gambeliana,v/it\\ orbicular-cordate leaves, and large 
purple flowers; P. putchra, with ovate-oblong leaves, 
and large purple flowers; P. obtusifolia Griffithii, 
with ovate-cordate leaves, and large bright purple 
flowers; P. elongata, with oblanceolate leaves and 
bright yellow flowers; P. Kingii, with elliptic-lan¬ 
ceolate acute leaves, and claret red flowers; P. 
Dickieana , with elliptic obovate leaves and yellow 
flowers; P. uniflora, with very small orbiculate leaves 
and large pale-lilac flowers ; P. soldanelloid.es , a beau¬ 
tiful little plant, with small ovate crenate leaves, and 
a nodding white flower; P. Plwesiana, with ob¬ 
lanceolate leaves, and large funnel-shaped flowers; 
and P. Wattii, with oblong-oblauceolate leaves, and 
rather large violaceous pendent flowers—all these 
appear likely to be acquisitions. 
$n JBemotiam. 
— J^enry Winthrop Sargent, Esq., died 
recently, in his 72nd year, at his country seat, 
Wodenethe, on the Hudson River. He settled 
in the neighbourhood of Newburyq the home of 
Downing, from whom he received his earliest lessons in 
landscape gardening, and his first knowledge of trees. 
Wodenethe under his band became one of the most 
beauiilul and instructive gardens of the English 
school; and its master, the most widely known and 
famous of American gardeners. Mr. Sargent was par¬ 
ticularly interested in the introduction and cultiva¬ 
tion of exotic trees, and his experiments and studies 
in this direction have been of great and lasting value 
to his country. Wodenethe has been the grave of 
thousands of trees, but they have not died in vain. 
— (J&eorge Wailes, Esq., died recently at 
his residence at Gateshead, in his 80th year. 
Mr. Wailes was one of a famous band of 
young naturalists who did good service by establish¬ 
ing museums and developing a taste for natural 
history among their townsmen. His special peculiar¬ 
ities lay in the direction of entomology, botany, and 
gardening. In this latter connection his memory 
will be handed down to posterity in the name 
Wailesia attached by Bindley to a genus of Orchids. 
Alpine plants and Orchids were his pet subjects. 
— JE(r. Peter Murray died recently at 
Hamilton, Canada, at the age of 76 years. He 
was a native of Lanarkshire, and the eldest of 
eight brothers, two of whom have risen to the posi¬ 
tion of merchants in Canada. He v/as for about 
thirty years gardener to the late Marquis of Breadal- 
bane, at Taymouth Castle, Perthshire, and was 
known to be an excellent practitioner in all depart¬ 
ments of gardening. 
— JJKr. Thomas Whalley, seedsman, of 
St. George’s Crescent, Liverpool, died recently 
at the age of 63. He was much respected 
throughout the agricultural districts of Lancashire 
and Cheshire, and with his father had been con¬ 
nected with the trade of Liverpool for nearly a 
century. 
— JUr. John Sadler, Curator of the 
Royal Botanic Gardens, and of the new Arbo¬ 
retum, Edinburgh, died on December 7, in 
the 46tli year of his age. He was born at Gib- 
bleston, Eifeshire, on February 3, 1837. In 1854 
he became assistant to Hr. Balfour, Professor of 
Botany in the University of Edinburgh, and carried 
out the duties of his office with diligence and 
assiduity. In 1858 he became Secretary to the 
Edinburgh Botanical Society, and for seventeen 
years he filled a corresponding position in con¬ 
nection with the Scottish Arboricultural Society. 
In 1867 he was appointed Lecturer on Botany in 
the Edinburgh High School, and two years later he 
was awarded the Neill Prize of £50 by the Royal 
Caledonian Horticultural Society, in acknowledg¬ 
ment of the services rendered by him to botany and 
horticulture. In the same year, 1879, on the death 
of Mr. McNab, he was appointed as his successor 
at the Botanic Gardens, and last year had his duties 
increased by his appointment to the post of Curator 
of the new Arboretum. He was buried in the War- 
riston Cemetery, in the presence of over a hundred 
of his relatives and friends, including most of the 
leading horticulturists of Edinburgh and the neigh¬ 
bourhood. 
— m h. William Hinds died on December 
20, at the age of 38 years. He was for several 
years gardener to Sir T. E. Moss, Bart., at 
Roby Hall, and at Otterspool; and subsequently 
took charge of the gardens at Canford Manor, Dorse L 
He had been for some years a frequent contributor 
to the Gardeners’ Chronicle , and for some few 
months had been attached to the staff as travelling 
reporter. 
