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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ May, 
cultural Society a double Cineraria, which was 
regarded as “ quite a novelty, being so thoroughly 
double as to resemble the double purple Ground¬ 
sel (Senecio elegans).” The late Mr. Kendall, of 
Stoke Newington, also showed a double variety 
many years since, and in recent times Messrs. Dick¬ 
son and Co., and Messrs. Haage and Schmidt, have 
produced meritorious varieties. The splendid Mrs. 
Thomas Lloyd, shown on March 9th by Mr. R. 
Greenfield, has very large and bright magenta 
flowers, and was deservedly awarded a First-class 
Certificate of Merit; and its companion, Mr. Thomas 
Lloyd, has flowers of a deep purple. These new 
varieties surpass in size, symmetry, and fullness all 
we have hitherto seen, and will impart a quickened 
interest in these flowers, since it appears difficult 
to over-estimate their usefulness for cutting pur¬ 
poses. 
— 2S£e are pleased to learn that Mr. 
Walter H. Fitch, F.L.S., whose pencil has 
had so large a share in illustrating our own 
pages, has been awarded a pension of £100 per 
annum, from the Civil List, in recognition of his 
services to botanical science. 
— ®he handsome variety of Chrysanthe¬ 
mum frutescens named Etoile d’Or was raised 
in or about the year 1874, by M. Desgeorges, 
deceased, the then gardener to M. Adam, also de¬ 
ceased, of Villa des Bruyeres, Golf Juan, near 
Cannes; it was obtained from seed of Chrysanthemum 
frutescens, var. Comtesse de Chambord, known in the 
locality as Anthemis a grande fleur. It appears 
to have been disposed of by the widow of the raiser 
to M. Nabofinand, horticulteur, Golf Juan, and by 
him named, but not until it had found its way into 
one or two private gardens of the neighbourhood. 
— £Phe Double-flowered Wistaria has 
been blossoming in the propagating-house of 
Mr. A. Waterer, of Knap Hill, Woking. “ It 
fully bears out, says the Garden, all that has been 
said of it, for the flowers are perfectly double, re¬ 
sembling double-flowered violets, and, singularly 
enough, they also resemble violets in scent. As 
regards this, Mr. Waterer says:— 1 1 was agreeably 
surprised, on going into one of our propagating- 
houses the other day, to discover that, like double 
violets, it quite perfumed the house; and I also 
made another discovery—I had an idea that it was 
a shy bloomer, but every graft of it has bloomed.’ 
Such valuable properties in a new hardy shrub or 
wall plant are seldom met with, and we hope that 
it may soon become less rare than it is now.” 
Jtn mo riant. 
— Superintendent J. G. C. Oberdiecii, 
the Nestor of German pomology, died on 
February 24th, at Jeinsen, in his 86tli year, 
What Oberdieck has done for pomology will be for 
him an imperishable monument, since he had been 
constantly labouring for the improvement of fruit- 
tree culture, with a view to its attaining a higher 
status, and acquiring greater national importance. 
— Adolf BiErmann, the curator of 
the Royal Botanic Garden, at Calcutta, died 
recently from cholera. 
— ^UroEessoR SchimpEr, whose researches 
in vegetable morphology, and in the history 
and classification of mosses and of fossil plants. 
gave him a high place among contemporary botanists, 
died recently at Strasburg. 
— *3r. Schaeffer, the able and courteous 
Director of the beautiful Botanic Garden at 
Buitenzorg, Java, died a few weeks since, at 
the early age of 35. His death will be felt as a very 
serious loss to botany and horticulture. 
— fHR. Thomas Perkins, formerly the 
head of the nursery and seed firm of Messrs. 
Thomas Perkins and Sons, of Northampton, 
died on April 3rd, after a long and painful illness, 
in his 58tli year. 
— |Hr. Thomas Felton, principal of the 
firm of T. Felton and Son, 4 North King 
Street, Dublin, who held the position of 
manager to the late firm of Fergus Farrell and 
Sons for 33 years, and about seven years ago com¬ 
menced business on his own account, died on April 
6tli, at the age of 66. 
— m- John Powell, of the Royal Gar¬ 
dens, Frogmore, died on April 9th, in his 62nd 
year, after an attack of paralysis. Mr. Powell 
had been connected with the Royal Gardens for 
thirty-seven years, during which he had charge of 
the department of hardy fruits. Mr. Powell was an 
excellent and intelligent practical cultivator, and a 
discriminating judge of fruits; and had been for 
many years a valued contributor to our pages. His 
loss will be sincerely regretted by a large circle of 
professional friends, amongst whom he was very 
highly respected. 
— fix. Souchet, the eminent raiser of 
French Gladioli, died in the early part of April, 
at the advanced age of 68 years. lie was for 
many years the head gardener at the Palace of 
Fontainebleau, but retired from that position some 
ten or twelve years ago. M. Souchet has of late 
suffered severely, so that his death was not un¬ 
expected. 
— iitTR. Robert Fortune died at West 
Brompton, on April 13th, in his 68th year. 
He was a native of Berwickshire, and served 
his apprenticeship in the gardens of Kelloe, whence 
he went to Moredun, near Edinburgh, and after 
some time entered the Botanic Gardens there, under 
the elder MacNab. Here he remained between two 
and three years, and then came to London, having been 
appointed Superintendent of the Hothouse depart¬ 
ment of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, an 
appointment he vacated on being commissioned in 
February, 1813, by the Society, to proceed to China 
to collect plants. In July of that year he arrived in 
China, and at once began that career of collecting 
which afterwards proved so fruitful. In 1846 he re¬ 
turned, and was shortly thereafter appointed to the 
Curatorship of the Botanic Garden of the Society 
of Apothecaries at Chelsea, which, however, he did 
not long fill, being commissioned in May, 1818, by 
the East Lrdia Company to proceed again to China, 
to collect Tea seeds and Tea plants for India. 
Between that time and 1862, when he finally re¬ 
turned, he made three journeys to China and Japan, 
in the course of which lie introduced to this country 
a vast number of valuable and ornamental plants, 
which are now familiar in our gardens. 
