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XXIV.—TRESCO ABBEY GARDENS, SCILLY ISLES. 
is well known, is to grow as far as possible the plants represen- 
t 
Smith and Sir Thomas Hanbury, are perhaps not sufficiently 
known to the botanists and gardeners of the present generation. 
British botanists tend to be concerned so much with problems of 
This, however, is an omission that is not wholly their own fault, 
and it would be highly desirable if arrangements could be made 
so that systematic botanists, more particularly, should pay visits 
to these two magnificent collections, from time to time, in order 
to study in the living condition the plants with which their sphere 
of work has made them familiar, though only as inanimate 
objects. 
naming of their plants. In addition they would without doubt 
able to suggest new and interesting subjects for experimental 
cultivation. 
0 extensive are the collections both at Tresco Abbey and in 
the gardens at La Mortola that they offer abundant scope for a 
permanent botanist and a botanical laboratory, but such a counsel 
tion in addition to his other duties, and it should rather be con- 
sidered a duty of the State to provide funds for visiting botanists, 
