30 



7. Contains Palms and Monocotyledones requiring much room. 

 The house is 30 ft. high. The entire stock of large Palms, Cyca- 

 dcce, and Pandanea is about one hundred species. 



8. Also 30 ft. high, with a double glass roof, as have also Nos. 

 9, 10, and 12, giving thus great warmth with abundance of light. 

 Here are large Bananas, several Palms, Carolinea, Pterospermum, 

 Broivnlovia, etc. 



9. Height 28 ft. The plants are in the borders. In the eastern 

 part are Succidenta and arborescent Ziliacea from tropical Africa 

 and America, planted amongst rocks ; in the other half are specimen 

 plants of the Monocotydelones cultivated in the garden. Amongst 

 these are a large Elate sylvestris, several specimens of Sabal um- 

 braculifera and Blackburniana, old Pandani and Cerei, reaching 

 to the roof of the house. 



10. Twenty-nine feet high. Tropical plants corresponding 

 with its height. Pine specimens of Gustavia, Genipa, Meliacete, 

 and Bignoniacece are conspicuous. 



11. Twenty-nine feet high. This house forms the east end of 

 the middle range ; it has a hot-Avater apparatus, and contains in 

 two borders chiefly Monocotyledones, such as large specimens of 

 Musa Cavendis/iii. 



12. Height 26 ft. Tropical plants as in No. 10, too high for 

 the stoves of the south range. 



13. The centre of the south range, 28 ft. high. Large Chinese 

 and Japan plants, as Camellia, Thea, Magnolia, Nandina, etc., 

 planted in borders. The glass roof is supported by pillars and 

 slants towards the north, admitting light from both sides. The 

 top is double glass. Here is a large Magnolia fuscata, 12 ft. high, 

 and stem 7 inch, in circumference near the ground. 



14. Greenhouse, 18 ft. high, containing plants from the south 

 of Europe, the Canaries, and Madeira, with Gerania and Pelar- 

 gonia. 



15. Corresponding with the preceding, with hardy plants from 

 Chili and isothermal countries of America, and such Camellia and 

 Rhododendra as find no room elsewhere. 



16 and 17. Both 14 ft. high. Intended for young tropical 

 plants. No. 17 contains hardly any but Brazilian plants, amongst 

 which many as yet unnamed. Of those named we may mention 

 Geonoma Schottiana and pauci/lora, Bactris caryotifolia, Theobroma 

 Cacao, Gonyshia oliviformis, Mettcrnichia principis, Metrodorea, 

 Raddima, etc. In all these houses are shelves near the windows 

 for young plants requiring most light. 



Four houses, all 14 ft, high, connect the north with the middle 

 range on the east side ; they are divided by glass partitions into 



