James Y. Murkland died suddenly at his residence at Hackensack, N. J., on the 16th inst. He had been ailing for the past five or six years with disease of the lungs, and there was no hope that he would ever recover. Mr. Murkland was a native of Ayreshire, Scotland, and about forty years of age. For nearly twenty years he had been with the firm of Young & Elliott, seedsmen of New York, and was a member of the firm at the time of his death. An enthusiast in everything pertaining to horticulture, and of more than ordinary natural abilities, few had a more general knowledge of the subject, and the public is indebted to the enterprise and discrimination used by him in disseminating many of the most popular plants now grown. Mr. Murkland was the Secretary of the New York Horticultural Society, of which he has been the head and front for the past eight years, and what success it has had in the past has been largely due to his energy and well judged efforts.

Few men had more warm friends than James Murkland. Well educated, and generous to a fault, he possessed a genial sunny nature and an infinite fund of humor, that even in his years of failing health made him ever look on the bright side of life. A truthful, manly fellow, of whose friendship any man might well be proud. Among all the trade around New York and Philadelphia, no one was better known or more honored and respected than he. P. H.