Gardener, Admiral

Parkinson, J., Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris or, A choise garden of all sorts of rarest flowers with their nature, place of birth, time of flowring, names, and vertues to each plant, useful in physic or admired for beauty to which is annext a kitchin-garden furnished with all manner of herbs, roots, and fruits, for meat or sauce used with us, with the art of planting an orchard. .. all unmentioned in former herbals, R.N., London, 1629. 

Evan was a quiet, soft-spoken, self-effacing man with a sly sense of humor. He was admired and enjoyed by his associates, of whom the most help of all was his devoted wife Marjorie. Not only did they share common interests at work, but enjoyed traveling, gardening, and classical music, as well as sculpture, painting, and other forms of art. 

Another legend tells of a falcon dropped the first lilac seeds in an old woman s garden. The seed sprouted and grew into a beautiful bush, but it did not bloom. One day a young prince stopped to admire the bush. 

Brine, Vice-Admiral Lindesay, 13, Pembroke-gardens, Kensington,... 

Markham, Rear-Admiral Albert H., F.R.G.S., 45, Wynnstay-gardens, Kensington. 

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