. The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. rs. Grieve, who is wellknown and gratefully remembered by so many gar-deners for her hospitality, survives her husband,and will have the warm sympathy of many readersof this notice. The funeral took place in the church-yard at Culford on Tuesday, October 1. I should like to say something—much, in fact—ofthe worth and work of my friend of nearly fiftyyears; but his loss is too recent, and too near him, associated with him in everypossible way in horticultural matters for so long aperiod,
. The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. rs. Grieve, who is wellknown and gratefully remembered by so many gar-deners for her hospitality, survives her husband,and will have the warm sympathy of many readersof this notice. The funeral took place in the church-yard at Culford on Tuesday, October 1. I should like to say something—much, in fact—ofthe worth and work of my friend of nearly fiftyyears; but his loss is too recent, and too near him, associated with him in everypossible way in horticultural matters for so long aperiod, his sudden removal leaves a vacant placewhich is hardly likely to be filled. I loved him as afriend, a companion, a neighbour; a brother of thepen, the knife, and spade ; and never found himwanting in any good work, or kind word or to his great doings as a cultivator in all depart-ments—are they not to be read in all the backrecords of Culford Gardens for years, and in many aback number of the Gardeners Chronicle ? His solidsoundness as a juror; his practical experience as a. writer, are also well known. His work amongdouble Petunias and Pelargoniums was also dulychronicled as it appeared ; and the art of raisingTricolors by the father of most or all of them, may,I believe, still be had. Neither has the change of fashion in furnishingflower-beds detracted from the value of Mr. Grieveswork in hybridisation or cross - breeding Pelar-goniums or other plants ; his skill and perseverancewere marvellous, and so were the products; thetricolors, bicolors, and bronzes had a brilliantreign for years; and it is quite possible that forvarious purposes they may have a renaissance. Bethat as it may, Mr. Grieve did good work at Culfordand other places as a landscape gardener, as well asa cultivator and cross-breeder. The grand Yewhedges inclosing the vegetable quarters in theprincely kitchen gardens are of his planting, andwill prove, perhaps, his moot enduring flo
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