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ment of grounds and plantations attached to the following public 
institutions: Admiralty House, Portsmouth Dockyard; the Bor- 
stal Institute, Feltham; Kneller Hall, Twickenham. Trees and 
shrubs also have been supplied to the last named, to H.M. Train- 
ing Depot at Osterley Park, the Red Cross Hospital, Richmond, 
and to Plymouth Corporation. Specimens of timber of various 
trees were supplied for experimental purposes to the Anti-Gas 
Department, R.A.M.. were London. Cuttings of Populus 
Hugenex—one of the most promising of quick-growing timber 
trees—have been distributed for trial to a number of private and 
public establishments. A number of species of Rubus, new and 
old, were sent to Mr. W. F. M. Copeland, of Southampton, who 
18 making extensive trials in breeding and apcane with a view 
to the production of new fruit-bearing kinds 
Additions to Tree and Shrub Collections.—An interesting gift 
to Kew made last autumn was a plant of Cotoneaster integerrima, 
Medic. (C. vulgaris, Lindl.). It was collected by the late Rev. 
eee Ley, a well-known British botanist, on Great Orme’s 
ead in Carnarvonshire, and presented by his cousin, Miss Sibyl 
B. Gee, of Brampton Lodge, Herefordshire. This is the only 
species ‘of Cotoneaster indigenous to the British Isles, and the 
only site on which it has been found is Great Orme’s Head. It 
was originally discovered on the cliffs near Llandudno, then a 
small fishing hamlet, by Mr. J, W. Griffith in 1783. 
During the year two consignments of trees and shrubs have 
been received fon the Arnold Arboretum, including some new 
species of American Aesculus (a subject of ‘recent study by Prof. 
Sargent), also new hickories, maples, birches, alders, and oaks. 
A number of plants collected by Dr C.K: Schneider in China 
were included, most of them under numbers; a considerable pro- 
portion of these may prove new to science. Lt.-Col. F. RB. 8. Bal- 
four sent from Dawyck about three dozen plants which had been 
noted as desirable for Kew. Col. Balfour has been endeavouring 
to introduce the interesting beech, Nethofagus Dombeyi, from 
Southern Chile. Seeds he sent to Kew were all, unfortunately, 
dead on arrival, but we learn that, out of a consignment of young 
trees, he hopes. to save two alive. These may prove sufficient to 
establish this fine tree in cultivation. 
rom Mr. J.C. Williams, of Caerhays Castle, now the recognised 
headquarters of cultivated rhododendrons in Kurope, several 
valuable contributions to this genus have been received. We 
have also to acknowledge gifts from Sir Edmund G. Loder, Miss 
Jekyll, Prof. A. Henry, and the Hon. Vicary Gibbs. To the deep 
regret of all he wey him, Canon Ellacombe died in February, 
and sie the garden of Bitton Vicarage, for the first time for 
very many years, makes no claim to our acknowledgments. 
The United States Department of Agriculture sent, amongst 
other things, the very rare Aesculus Wilsonti, a new horse 
chestnut — Western China 
The wing new trees ‘and shrubs have flowered at Kew 
during the pant year >— 
canthopanax setchuenense. 
SiR i > siniconeasei tend ccsdenen laa 
