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lately been planted in the Southern Pinetum and elsewiiere. 



ormosa 



of seventy feet in girth of triinlc. It is, therefore, one of the giant 

 tiees of the globe, and the most gigantic conifer of the Old 

 Woi\ld — T^^orthy to be compared with the mammoth trees of Cali- 

 fornia- It is evidently most closely allied to the Japanese 

 C. insifera, having the same sharply-pointed leaves, but without 

 the white stomatic patches beneath seen in that species. The 

 young trees are very healthy and vigorous, and assuming that 

 tliey will prove hardy, it is very satisfactory to have got so 

 interesting a tree well established in cur collections. 



The following trees and shrubs have flowered in the Arboretum 

 Depiirtmeut for the first time : — 



Acanthopanax leucorrhizum. 



jy 



scaberulum. 



Alnus cremastogyne. 

 Berberis levis. 



Betula alnoides pyrifolia, 



Callicarpa sp. (? Giraldiana) (fruit very handsome). 

 Clematis brachyura. 



7f 



glauca var. akebioides. 



Corylopsis platypetala. 



" >> var, luevis. 



5j sinensis. 



J t 



Willmottiae 



Evodia hupehensis. 

 Pyrus kansuensis. 



J, sealaris. 



,, yunnanensis. 



Ehododendron Davidsonianum . 



Fii 



< ■ 



J J 



>> 



5» i^argesii. 



Hanceanum. 



longistylum. 

 )> moupinense. 



M villosum. 



. " yantliinum. 



V accmium neglectum. 



Viburnum betulifoliuin (fruit brilliunt red). 



cessf u cm :7^ +1'' ^^f .?'''*'' ""^^^ ^^ *^« ^^^le a highly suc- 

 Wge L 'tLe ,!i*:-^^^^ ^^'' ^V^^^er of birds reared was not so 



W^oro at Lw ^ ^'^'' '^ ''''^''^'^^ '^'^^^^'^ ^ir^l^ ^^^t bred 



BoaSed!' S'mif ""7 ^^'i'^'r^ Mandarins; Common, 

 f^ommon Shelffake ^I^-P^'^^ /°'^^'^^ ^^^^ Tufted Ducks; 



necked R^-an. 



out Ihel^eg^s^aL ?ne\t r'"' .*^^^. >'^^^ ^^^ ^-^^^ to hatch 

 killed ^hen about a f orWht M f ?'" °^ .^^ck-necked s^van8 was 

 at it, apparently to try and I I ^7, ' ^^''}^'''' ^^« ^^^«^- ^ «t«^^ 



Badger was aga^in a tlve In '.J^ ^^^'^ '^' ^^^l^^^'s ^^^^- The 



8 m active among the geese by the lake during the 



