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Algeria, 1. Italy, 23. 
Australia, 5. Japan, I. 
Austro-Hungary, 13. Java, I. 
Belgium, 5. Malta, I. 
Brazil, 2. Mauritius, I. 
Canada, I. Natal, 1. 
Canary Islands, 1. New Zealand, I. 
Cape of Good Hope, 3. Norway, I. 
Ceylon, I. Pero, t. 
Chili, 1. Philippine Islands, 1. 
China, 1, Portugal, 3. 
Cochin China, I. Reunion, I. 
Denmark, 2.5 Roumania, 2. 
Ecuador, 1. Russia, 16. 
Egypt, I. Servia, I. 
France, 22. Siberia, 1. 
Germany, 36. Spain, 2. 
Great Britain and Ireland, 12. Straits Settlements, I. 
Greece, I. Sweden, 6, 
Guatemala, 1. Switzerland, 4. 
Guiana, I. Tasmania, I. 
Holland, 4. United States, 10. 
India, 7. West Indies, 6. 
NOTES ON SOME FOREIGN GARDENS. 
1. Buitenzorg, Java. This is the largest botanical garden, 
occupying some 1,100 acres, at altitudes from sea level to ‘about 
6,000 feet. It was founded by the Dutch government in 1817, and 
has been well supported. Affording, as it does, highly favorable 
conditions for the growth of tropical and subtropical plants under 
natural conditions, it has yielded most important results, especially 
in taxonomy and plant physiology, many of which have been 
published in the ten large volumes of its “ Annales.” 
2. The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew are situated on the 
south bank of the Thames, about six miles west of Hyde Park 
Corner. They are reached by several railway routes, the time 
from Charing Cross being about 40 minutes, by steamer and by 
omnibus lines. The present area of the gardens is about 260 
acres, an addition having been made during the past year. These 
world-famed gardens originated in the exotic garden of Lord Capel, 
in 1759. In 1840 they were adopted as a national establishment 
and opened as a public park. The botanic garden proper occu- | 
