THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ July, 
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Tliis was kept oii nutil the plants wiire strong' in tlie 
stem, and the leaves well above the rim of the pot. 
As a]|successional lot wa.s generally planted by about 
this time, the pots were shifted on to the small 
plants. Besides keeping- all snails out, this plan 
afforded excellent protection to the young plants 
early in spring or in severe weather, and on this 
account alone it is worthy of notice. A substitute, 
consisting of round bands of thin ash-wood, 6 in. in 
diameter by 6 in. deep, placed over the young plants 
in the same way as the pots, has been found to 
answer admirably. 
— ^ NEW briglit-looking Golden-leaved 
Selaginella has been exhibited from Chiswick 
by Mr. Barron. It is a neat-growing, distinct, 
golden-yellow variegated form, and cannot fail to 
become a very popular plant, as it remains quite 
constant. It was sent to Chiswick by Mr. Donaldson, 
gardener to the Earl of Kintore, Keith Hall, Aber¬ 
deenshire, by whom it was raised. 
— S'he Influence of the Stock on the 
Scion has often engaged the attention of horti¬ 
culturists. Some few years ago Mr. Barron 
carried out and reported on some experiments at 
Chiswick, with a view to gleaning further informa¬ 
tion on this interesting and important question, and 
in furtherance of this object obtained samples of the 
various stocks in use from the most trustworthy 
sources. A certain number of stocks of each kind were 
allowed to grow without let or hindrance, and the others 
were grafted with the Blenheim Orange, it being 
desirable to know ivhat effect the different stocks 
would have on the same variety of Apple. At the 
present time the results of the experiment are very 
clearly apparent. 
— SBe have received from Mr. W. B. 
Latham, of the Birmingham Botanic Gardens, 
specimens of Lastrea marginalis, var. cris- 
■I’ATA, a handsojnc new hardy Fern of great beauty. 
This cristate variety of the K’^orth-American Lastrea 
marginalis was, he reports, received from Canada a 
few years since, and has proved constant under 
cultivation. The fronds are very neatly crested at 
the tip of each of the piiin®, while the apex of the 
frond is doubly forked, as -well as crested; altogether, 
the variety is one well worth growing. 
— I-Jkofessor Karl Henri Emile Koch 
died on May 25th, in his 70th year. He was, 
till recently. Professor of Botany in the Uni¬ 
versity of Berlin, and was more especially connected 
with horticultural botany. His genial manners, no 
less than his scientitic reputation, secured him a wel¬ 
come at the various botanical and horticultural con¬ 
gresses, most of which he attended as an official dele¬ 
gate from the German Government. In this way Pro¬ 
fessor Koch became to horticulturists perhaps the 
best known botanist of the Continent. His early 
travels in the Caucasus, Persia, Asia Minor, &c., and 
his numerous publications on garden botany, 
pomology, and arboriculture, rendered him a leading 
authority on these subjects. For many years he 
edited the Wochetischrijt fiir Odrtnerie und Pflan- 
zenkiinde, and his Dendrologie is in all respects a 
classical work. 
— m. David Moore, Director of the 
Botanic Garden, at Glasnevin, Dublin, died 
thereon June 9th, from the effects of diabetes. 
For the long period of forty years he was at the head 
of the Botanic Garden of the Royal Dublin Society, 
which he raised from a comparatively humble condi¬ 
tion to be one of the lirst establishments of the kind in 
the United Kingdom, the Glasnevin Garden being- 
excelled only by that at Kew, and equalled by only 
one other public garden, that of Edinburgh. He was 
a native of Dundee, and commenced the study of 
horticulture in the gardens at Camperdown and the 
nurseries at Comely Bank, and that of botany under 
the late Dr. Mackay, then Curator of the College 
Botauical Garden, whose place his eldest sou, Mr. 
E. W. Moore, now fills. He was for five years em¬ 
ployed on the Geological Survey of Ireland, before 
he was appointed to Glasnevin. Among- his chief 
works were Notices of British Grasses, Irish Hepa- 
ticce, Irish Mosses, and Cyhele Hiiernica, of which 
latter he was joint author with Mr. A. G. More, 
P.R.S., M.R.I.A. He -was a thoroughly practical 
botanist and horticulturist, and one of the most 
simple-minded and generous-hearted of men. 
— I^ENEY Noel Humphreys, Esq., died 
somewhat suddenly on June 9th, at the age of 
71. He was born in Birmingham, and became 
an artist of no mean fame and a naturalist of no un¬ 
certain repute. He is best known to naturalists 
by his -(vorks on British Butterflies aud British 
Moths, undertaken in association with Professor 
Westwood, aud to horticulturists by bis illustrations 
to various works on bulbs, annuals, &c., brought out 
by Mrs. Loudon. Quite recently, he contributed some 
characteristic drawings of jilants to the pages of the 
Garden. 
— 3aev. Canon Beadon died at North 
Stoneham, near Southampton, on June 10th. 
He was born in London in December, 1777, 
aud was consequently in the 102nd year of his age. 
He graduated at Trinity College, Oxford, in the first 
year of the present century, and in 1811 became vicar 
of Tetley, and was in the same year presented to the 
rectory of North Stoneham, in succession to his father, 
"which he held ever since—a period of 68 years. In 
1812 he was made a canon of Wells Cathedral. Mr. 
Beadon had a thorough love for horticultural pur¬ 
suits. Indeed, North Stoneham Rectory has been 
for a long time one of the landmarks of gardening 
in the South, and the name of Canon Beadon -svill be 
long remembered in connection "with it. 
- Spach died in Paris on May 18th, in 
his 79th year. He literally died at his post, 
in the herbarium of the Jardin des Plantes, 
with which establishment he had been connected 
for nearly half a century. He is best known in this 
country by his descriptions of flowering- plants in the 
Suites a Buffon. 
- Emile Eodemboueg, head gardener 
at the Botanic Garden of the Liege University, 
died recently, from a malady which had long 
preyed on him. He was one of the first pupils 
started from the Bcole d’Horticulture of Ghent, aud 
he did honour to that establishment, so far as work 
M'as allowed to him; but uufortuuatelj' his very bad 
health has prevented liim from accomplishing all 
that was desirable. 
