Among recent deaths is that of this well-known florist of Alexandria, Virginia, in his seventy-second year. He was one of the many model men of whom horticulture in America has such good reason to be proud. Starting in life with no capital but great intelligence, a high sense of probity, and good common sense and industry, he lived to become comparatively wealthy, and to exercise a wide-spread influence in shaping the course of things around him. Judging by the Star of his city, few men have dropped out in Alexandria more sincerely regretted.