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Austraua and of seeing in their native habitats the trees he had 
so often planted. In 1916 the Western Australian Government 
Forest, its demarcation and management, 1918). In 1920, in 
recognition of the above services, the honour of knighthood was 
conferred upon him, thus fittingly closing his long and 
distinguished career. 
Henry F. C. Sanper.—The death of Mr. H. F. C. Sander, 
F.L.S., which occurred at Bruges on December 28rd, 1920, in 
his 74th year, deprives commercial horticulture of one of its 
most active leaders. For many years Messrs. Sander and Sons, 
Nurserymen, St. Albans and Bruges, were the principal importers 
of orchids and other tropical and subtropical plants, to the great 
advancement of indoor gardening. He was a liberal contributor 
to Kew, the orchid collection being largely indebted to him for 
many new and rare species, as also are the collections of stove 
plants, including palms, ferns, cycads, &c. He also presented 
many dried specimens obtained by his collectors in tropical 
countries. The largest example of Grammatophyllum speciosum 
(Bot. Mag. t. 5157) ever seen in Europe, which has for many 
years been a striking object in the Victoria House, where it has 
flowered several times, was presented to Kew by Mr. Sander in 
1893, having been obtained at considerable expense from the 
forests of Penang. Mr. Sander did much to foster a love for 
orchid cultivation in this country by his enterprise in collecting 
and importing the most attractive species in quantity. He was. 
also one of the first to realise that home-raised orchids, particu-- 
larly hybrids, were worthy of attention, and many of the most 
popular hybrids were bred in his nurseries. He grew for ex- 
portation enormous numbers of palms, azaleas, camellias, bays, 
tuberous begonias, &c., employing hundreds of men in his two 
~ nurseries, which comprised over 4 acres of glasshouses in St. 
Albans and over 100 in Bruges, many of them of great dimen- 
sions. At one time there were 30 houses devoted entirely to 
orchids in the Bruges Nursery. Mr. Sander combined with great: 
business capacity a keen love of plants of all kinds, and an 
extraordinary skill in arriving at the best cultural treatment for 
new and untried plants. His exhibits of orchids and other 
plants at the great shows held in London, Paris, St. Petersburg, 
Vienna and other centres were much appreciated by connoisseurs. 
Botany as well as horticulture owes much to his zeal and — 
enterprise WwW. W. 
Earlier Hours of Opening.—The Minister of Agriculture and 
Fisheries has had under consideration the question of the hours 
of opening to the public of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 
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