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for the English and French markets which have been so success- 
lished itself at the foot of the Western Cliffs on St. Martin’s just 
above the reach of the waves. Two large plants may now be seen 
which have apparently grown from chance seeds and they are 
fully exposed to the salt spray. They flower profusely and ripen 
seeds, and young seedlings are springing up in crevices in the 
granite cliffs above and around the original plants. This 
naturalization of P. Colensoi serves to show that though at first 
tions so much resemble those of New Zealand that the cultivation 
would appear to offer every prospect of success. 
It is not the purpose of this brief article on the remarkable 
collections in the Tresco Abbey Gardens to enumerate the various 
plants in detail, its object rather is to point out that in the 
Scilly Islands, thanks to the enterprise and love of plants dis- 
played by the successive Lord Proprietors, we have within the 
bounds of Great Britain a Botanic Garden of singular importance 
and value. For in this favoured spot may be studied the prin- 
cipal features, not only of the temperate regions of New Zealand 
and her outlying islands, of Australia and of South America, but 
also a vast number of the characteristic features of the subtropical 
tifie 
ordinating the work of applying botanical knowledge to practical 
ends W. HILL. 
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