Lonsdale & Burton

This famous firm of rose growers, located at Wyndmoor, near Philadelphia, will be dissolved on July 1st. Mr. John Burton will retain the old establishment. On the new grounds of Mr. Lonsdale, arrangements have been made to erect at once three rose houses, each 250 feet long. They will be warmed by steam.

Isaac Collins

Mr. Collins, whose small but excellent nursery, at Haywards, is well known to Californians, has sold his grounds. A high figure was the temptation.

Peter Henderson & Co

Mr. James Reid has retired from the firm, which will hereafter consist of Peter Henderson, and his two sons, Alfred and Charles.

T. V. Munson

A Texas correspondent pays a just compliment to the services of this gentleman in the advancement of intelligent horticulture South. He says one of the greatest treats in his recollections of life, was a ramble through the woods and fields with him. Everything seemed to interest him. and he seemed to know something about everything they met. His general intelligence was charming.

The T. S. Hubbard Company

The well known and popular firm of T. S. Hubbard, grape growers, has been made a stock affair. Mr. G. H. Pratt, formerly of Rochester, takes an interest, and the former employees, Messrs. Young, Hart and Lee, have now an interest in the company, at Fredonia, N. Y.

The Canadian Fruit King

This title is conceded by his friends to properly belong to Alexander McDonald Allan, of Goderich, Ontario. He is president of the Ontario Fruit Growers' Association, and the largest exporter of Canadian fruit.

Col. Geo. Briggs

Every one has heard of the famous Briggs orchard, the pioneer peach orchard of California, founded by the Briggs Brothers, near Marysville. They also originated the Briggs Early May, a popular variety on the Pacific. The last of the brothers died recently, and we believe there is no one of the family left to bear the name.

George Jackman

The many over the whole world who have enjoyed the pleasures the numerous beautiful hybrid Clematises give, and especially the very striking Clematis Jackmani, will be sorry to learn that the one who started this rare enjoyment for them, Mr. George Jackman, died at his residence, Woking, near London, on the 29th of May, in his fiftieth year, from congestion of the lungs. He leaves a wife and eleven children.

Decandolle

Prof. Alphonse DeCandolle is so well known to our readers by the eminent services he has rendered by his botanical knowledge to horticulture, that there will be universal sympathy with him in the loss of Mrs. DeCandolle, who died in Geneva on April 6th, in her 76th year.