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THE FLORIST AND POMOLCGIST. 
[August, 
Hymenomycetes (chiefly Agaricini, Mushrooms and 
Toadstools), with habitats, seasons of growth, &o. 
The Edible and Poisonous Species will be specially 
noticed and commented on. The Illustrations will 
be engraved on wood, and will include figures of all 
the genera and sub-genera. The illustration of sub¬ 
genera will supply a much-felt want, and will greatly 
facilitate the study of Agarics. The issue of the 
work will depend on a sufficient number of sub¬ 
scribers being received by an early date. 
— ^The pretty Pieris japonica, though 
little known, is by no means new, for Thun- 
berg described it in bis Flora Japonica under 
the name Andromeda japonica, and many later 
authors on Japanese plants have mentioned it, 
amongst them Maczimowicz, who gives a careful 
description of it under the name Andromeda japonica. 
But Bentham and Hooker maintain Don’s genus 
Pieris in their Genera Plantarum, so that that name 
will stand. Plants of it have been shown during the 
flowering season for the last two or three years by 
Mr. Anthony Waterer, who has had it especially fine 
this season, at the meetings of the Boyal Horti¬ 
cultural Society at South Kensington. It is in 
Eiigland a hardy evergreen shrub or bush, with neat, 
thick, dark green, somewhat lanceolate, crenately 
serrate leaves, and long drooping panicled clusters 
of white pitcher-shaped blossoms. Assuredly it is 
a very ornamental plant. In Japan it already gives 
two varieties ; one with yellow-margined leaves, and 
one dwarf form. 
—^fcjAST strides bave been made during tbe 
last few years with tbe Amaryllis family, and 
besides those wbicb naturally bloom in spring 
some autumn-flowering varieties have been obtained. 
These latter have been produced by crossing the 
evergreen A. reticulata with the spring-flowering 
type, and this has been done almost at the same 
time by Messrs. Veitch & Sons, of Chelsea, who have 
introduced Autumn Beauty, and Mr. B. S. Mfilliams, 
of Holloway, who have obtained Mrs. Garfield and 
Mrs. AVilliam Lee. These varieties retain the ever¬ 
green character of A. reticulata, and in their cultiva¬ 
tion cannot be treated to such a decided season of 
rest as those which are the offspring of A. aulica, A. 
pardina, A. Leopoldii, and ethers which blossom 
earlier in the year. 
Ifn Seniorlam. 
— i^rlR. Augustus Fendler died on tbo 
island of Trinidad, November 27, 1883, at 
tbe age of 71 years. He was by birtb a 
Prussian, received a good ordinary education, and 
went to the United States about the year 1840. In 
1846 he was selected by Dr. Engelmann and Dr. 
Asa Gray to make a botanical collection in the 
northern part of New Mexico on the occasion of the 
movemeni of the United States troops to Sante Ee. 
Some ten years later, he migrated to Tovar, a 
German settlement in the mountains of Venezuela, 
where he made a large collection of dried plants! 
After a short sojourn in his native country, his long¬ 
ing for botanical exploration, and for a milder 
climate, took him to Trinidad, where for a time he 
botanised with his old zeal and assiduity. Eendler 
was a close and accurate observer, a capital col¬ 
lector and specimen maker, very painstaking 
and methodical, and his excellent distributed col¬ 
lections are classical. He is commemorated in a 
beautiful and quite peculiar Saxifragaceous shrub, 
indigenous to New Mexico and Texas (Pendlera 
rupicola), and numerous species of his own discovery 
bear his name, which will be lastingly and well 
remembered in botany. 
— J. C. Grcenewegen, chief gardener 
at tbe Botanic Garden at Amsterdam, died on 
May 24, at the age 73 years. His efforts to 
popularise Horticulture, and his judicious manage¬ 
ment of the garden under his care are well attested 
by his compatriots and friends. 
— 1I3r. Henri Egbert Goeppert, Professor 
of Botany at tbe University of Breslau, and 
Director of tbe Botanic Garden, died recently • 
at the age of 84 years. Both Botany and Horticul¬ 
ture lose a sympaihetic friend by the death of this 
illustrious and venerable savant, to whom they owe a 
deep debt of gratitude for his generous and unceasing 
eflbrts, during upwards of 50 years, to contribute to 
their advancement. 
— it^lR- George Toll, of Hullard Hall 
Nursery, Manchester, died on June 23, aged 
49 years. Mr. Toll was a native of Dunsford, 
near Exeter, Devonshire, and in early life was em¬ 
ployed in the nurseries of the Messrs. Veitch & Sons, 
and Messrs. Lucombe, Pince & Co. When the Art 
Treasures Exhibition was opened in Manchester in 
1857 he was sent by tbe latter firm with a large col¬ 
lection of Orchids, a collection of plants that in 
those days was considered almost unique, and which 
was subsequently purchased by Mr. W. Turner, of 
Barr Hill, Pendleton, who also secured Mr. Toll’s 
services. The plants were eventually removed to 
Pendlebury House, where many additions were 
made by the late J. A. Turner, Esq., M.P. In June, 
1868, the collection was broken up; and soon after 
Mr. Toll secured the business at Hullard Hall, and 
for the last sixteen years has been known as one of 
the more prominent nurserymen in the neighbour¬ 
hood of Manchester. 
— ifFlu. Charles Ewing, of Golden Grove, 
Chester, formerly gardener at Bodorgan, died 
on July 1, aged 67 years. He retired from 
the superintendence of Bodorgan Gardens nearly 
twenty years ago, and had since lived at Chester, 
where he took an active part in all matters likely to 
benefit the town. The cause of death was failure of 
the heart’s action ; but up to the time of this attack 
he was apparently in full health and vigour. He was 
the inventor of the Glass-walls w'hich were once 
thought to be useful structures, but were found in¬ 
efficient. While at Bodorgan he proved himself to 
be a most intelligent, and successful gardener. 
— JBr. Eugene P. N. Fournier died recently 
at Paris, after a long illness, aged 50 years. 
M. Fournier devoted almost all bis attention 
to botany, including Perns, among the professors of 
which he took high rank. He was one of the founders 
of the Societe de Botanique, and for long acted as its 
secretary. The French Government commissioned 
him to edit Flora of Mexico, and at the time of his 
death he had commenced the publication of two 
monographs for the Flora of Brasil. M. Eugene 
Fournier not only loved the botany of to-day, but was 
one of the most learned of its historians. His death 
is a sad loss to that branch of science, and will be 
acutely felt through the whole scientific world. 
