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published. Tlie Guide consists of some 44 pages, witli map^ 

 illustrations and a useful index, and is full of interesting infor- 

 mation about the numerous plants cultivated in the Gardens. 



The area occupied by the Gardens and experiment grounds is 

 now some 60 acres, 44 of which constitute the Garden proper. 

 The present site was purchased in 1891, and the work of laying 

 out the ground was commenced by Mr. H. F. Green, then curator, 

 now m India. Since March, 1892, when Mr. Joseph Jones was 

 appointed to the Curatorship from Kew, the Gardens have been 

 continuously under his charge, and it is due to his skill and 

 devotion that Dominica now possesses, fof its size, one of the 

 finest tropical botanic gardens in the world. 



The Dominica Garden owes much to the beauty of its situation, 

 but the remarkable interest of its collections, so well displayed 

 in the Guide, is due to its Curator, with whose name it must 

 always be associated. 



In addition to the account of the Garden proper, the experi- 

 nient grounds and nurseries, which form so important n feature 

 of the work under the Curator's charge, are also shortly described. 

 Here the limes, which may be said to have revolutionised the 

 planting industry in Dominica, are being constantly raised and 

 grafted and sent out to nlanters. n^ xtpIT aa o-i^nffo/l oonor. n-n/t 



mango. Para rubber, vanilla, coffee, nutmegs, and other plants 

 and trees of economic importance. 



The Guide is a very readable work, and Mr. Jones is to be 

 warmly congratulated on its production, more especially when 

 It IS remembered that it represents the results of the twenty-three 

 years lovmg service he has given, not to Dominica merely, but 

 ratlier to the Empire in general. 



Flora of the Kaikoura Mountains, New Zealand.— In a letter 



T? *^«„^\^ector Eoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew, dated Wellington, 

 New Zealand, 29th April, 1915, Mr. B. C. Aston writes :-" I 

 have recently begun the botanical exploration of a part of the 

 Jiaikoura Mountains (which go up to 9500 ft.) with gratifying 



results. 



countrf- 



(I) a new Gentiana (2) the finest Wahlenhergia yet found in New 

 Zealand, perennial and forming large masses of growtli on tlie 

 clitt laces. (^^ n TiPw r\,^^:^j.^^i:.. r_ i /a\ P . . .- __ 



ess interesting 



cliff faces, (3) a new Carmichaelia, and (4) some fes 



species; while the discovery of Kirk's Otearia coriacea in flower 



p aces that species m the section with Olearia Forsteri, the only 



and sS *^'' fv ^' ^V'""^ ^ ^"^^1« fl«r^t i^ each head, 



Potter?/ ' '""?? '-^^l^itional evidence for the restoration of 

 JJorsters genus Shawm." 



