Mr. Ellis died recently in California, as we see by a note in the Rural Press. He must have been beyond sixty years of age. He was one of the most intelligent horticulturists in the Union, though with some peculiarities, which those who knew him intimately charged probably with justice, as well as from the attractions of his many good points, to occasional mental aberrations. As an able horticultural writer he was well known a quarter of a century ago, as " Fox Meadow." In California, his work in laying out the grounds of the Capitol, and the State University receives high praise.