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present, it is one of the best evergreens for winter effect introduced 
for some time. It is a native of the mountains of Cuenca in Spain, 
at about 4500 feet altitude. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 
Pistacia chinensis, tree 80 feet x 12 feet, male ; near the city of 
Wan Hsien, Yangtsze River. 
Fothergilla major, plant about 8 feet high growing in the Arnold 
Arboretum. 
_LVIIL—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
His Masesty tHe Krvé has been graciously pleased to confide 
to Kew, for exhibition on loan, the model of the Taitokuin Shrine 
presented to His Masesry at the close of the Japan-British 
Exhibition. 
The model has been placed in Museum No. III. It consists of 
two buildings united by a covered way standing in a courtyard 
surrounded by a fence. A gateway in this fence gives admission 
to the courtyard and the buildings are entered by a flight of steps 
beneath an elaborate portico. The model is on a large table, the 
whole measuring 22 feet 6 inches in breadth, and rises to a height 
of 8 feet. 
Some details of the original shrine are given in the official account 
of Tokyo, compiled by the Tokyo Municipal Office for the Japan- 
British Exhibition, from which the following particulars are taken, 
an r. Yamasaki—under whose direction the .model has been 
placed in position at Kew—has also kindly supplied some additional 
information. 
The Taitokuin, which stands at Shiba Park, Tokyo, is the 
mausoleum of the second Shogun, Tokugawa Hidetada. 
shrine or mausoleum along with another shrine at Nikko, dedicated 
to the first Shogun, Iyeyashu, are considered to be the two most 
magnificent edifices ever built during the fifteen generations of the 
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Tokugawa Shoguns, covering a period of about 200 years. The 
Shogun, the subject of the model, unfortunately escapes the notice 
of a considerable number. 
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