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8 THE TLAXT WORLD. 



occidentalis, which sometimes becomes a tree of considerable 

 size in this region. In passing from Portland to Seattle we were 

 in the lower, more humid rec"i<:)ns nearer the coast. Here the 

 forests were much more luxuriant, and that most common tree 

 of Washington, the red fir (Pscudotsuga mucronata^^-^P . 

 doiiglasii) ; the giant cedar {Tliuja pUcata) ; the western hem- 

 lock (Tsiiga lieterophylJa), which is doubtless better develo]3ed 

 at higher altitudes in the Cascades ; and a few deciduous tr<?es 

 Avere noticed. But we are comine,- very near the scene of the 

 next paper of the series, where there was ample time for more 

 careful study of the higher plants. Consequently, we may well 

 terminate the present paper at this point. 



I am under obligations to Dr. II. L. Sliantz and the Botan- 

 ical Gazette for the figure showing the Bouteloua formation, and 

 to Mr. F. V. Coyille and the Smithsonian Institute for the 

 one showing the Sagebrush phiins. 



VISITS TO SOME BOTANIC GARDENS ABEOAD. 



By Dr. Pehr Olssox-Seffer. 



(Cuniinuatlon.) 



It appears that some three hundred years ago, or more cor- 

 rectly in the year 15 of Kwansi (1638), the Shogun Yemitsu 

 (Tokugana the Third) established two gardens for medicinal 

 plants, one at Shinagawa on the southern side of A'edo, as Tokyo 

 was called of old, the other at Ushigome in the northern part of 

 the city. The latter was abandoned in the year 3 of Ten^va 

 (1683), (luring the reign of the Shogun Tsunayoshi (Tokugawa 

 the Eifth), and the southern garden was remoyed to Ilakusan- 

 gotencho, the present site of the botanic garden. 



For more than a century and a half this garden was under 

 the protection of the consecutiye shoguns, until after the reyolu- 

 tion of Meji (1868), when it was taken over by the Meji gov- 

 ernment. During all this time it gradually improved from a 

 very humble bee'innino- to a garden of some size. 



