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Hitherto admission to the Gardens on week days has been from 
10 a.m. during the summer months and from noon during the 
winter months. Admission on Sundays has been from | p.m. 
throughout the year. Lord Lee of Fareham has now issued 
instructions that the public be admitted every day, except 
Christmas Day, throughout the year from 10 a.m., with effect 
from Ist January, 1921. 
The number of visitors to the Gardens during 1920 was 
1,131,771. 
Additions to Gardens, 1920.—The number of separate con- 
signments of living plants, seeds, &c., to the Gardens was 390. 
The most important were the following :— 
Glasnevin Botanic Gardens.—Various trees, shrubs and seeds; 
Briggsia amabilis, Lilium Bakerianum, and 8 species of Cistus. 
Edinburgh Botanic Garden.—Various plants and_ seeds; 
Ouvirandra fenestralis. 
Cambridge Botanic Garden.—Various stove and greenhouse 
plants. 
R.HS. Gardens, Wisley —30 species of herbaceous plants; 
17 packets of seeds collected by Forrest 
John Innes Horticultural Institution, Merton.—Various plants 
and seeds. 
Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratory.—Urginea Burkezi. 
Dominica Botanic Garden.—Seeds of Aitalea Cohune, Syagrus 
sp. and Raphia vinifera. 
Arnold Arboretum.—Many hardy trees and shrubs, including 
Taiwania cryptomerioides; many packets of seeds, including 
Lilium cernuum 
Darjeeling, Lloyd Botanic Garden.—432 packets of seeds 
collected in the mountains, including Castanopsis hystrix and 
Aesculus pundeana. 
Sydney Botanic Garden.—Seeds of Eucalypti, &c. 
Pretoria Department of Agriculture. —Stapelias, bulbs and 
seeds of 38 species of Aloe; Brachystelma sp. : 
Nairobi Forestry Department. —Euphorbia sp., Cyrtanthus 
sp.. Amomum sp., Crinum sp., and 4 species of Asparagus; 
Buddleia salviaefolia. 
Pekin Forestry Department.—Seeds, 12 species trees and 
shrubs. 
La Mortola (the late Lady Hanbury).—156 packets of seeds. 
Mauritius Botanic Garden.—Seeds of 14 species of palms. 
- Queenstown Public Gardens, S. Africa.—Stems of Encepha- 
lartos nif ayas Guilelmi, tuber of Amorphophallus, and Kni- 
phofia s 
National Botanic Garden, Kirstenbosch, Cape Town.—Three 
species of Aloe. 
Uganda Botanic Garden.—32 packets of seeds, tubers of 
hid 
rchids. 
Grenada Botanic Garden.—32 plants of Danaea. ; 
