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of ashes, it was afterwards transferred to the margins of the lake, 
where, for the most part, it still remains. No place, of course, is 
so well adapted for the cultivation of willows as one by the side 
of water. But for so large a number of species, varieties and 
hybrids as is grown at Kew, more room is needed than the lake 
affords, without completely shrouding its banks. The picturesque 
features of the lake at Kew, however, are so delightful and so 
generally admired that it would be a pity to obscure them in any 
way. For these reasons it has been decided to found a new 
Salicetum. It is to occupy a belt of ground in tin- Queen's Cottage 
Grounds extending from near the Isleworth IVnv Gate to the Old 
Beer Park. It borders the Ha-ha near the towing path, but is not 
yet open to the public. The soil here is moist and fairly good, 
and there is every reason to believe that willows will thrive. As 
a commencement, about 200 plants were put out during the 
spring; these will be added to as occasion offer- until tin- entire 
botanical collection is transferred. 
Trees struck by hghtnmg.-A severe thunderstorm was experi- 
-vewon the evening of May S, diu-im? uhich two trees 
TV" >im \ k '?' " l * htnh * ; »"e,a /.'»'""/,/ /W«, ■„. .tamlimr 
r! 6 ! th ^ Pala ^e and th, IT, rhavimn , ,1 a.om ;>.. % u is from 
he river ; the other, a common elm. one „, ; , , r „up of elms near 
the hnhnna ,, |<) f t , li<f j , ; , , , , 
isforke V ; h' n' : 
I he large, of these hran.dies, seme | .", ^inel,,.. |„ '. 
o m - r y ; v lM iv ; .gm.'n.'> :,". l ;i';i., , , , ! , , , ll ! 1 ;' i, , r; |, !;^ l '•;,;.;! u ^Iu!u 
fcs^^ 
dLeer The ifh?^" '■"' ■'''' ' hi ^ with a trunk 4 feet in 
SeTark on onL f tni f^ T de two strai ^ ht splits or bruises in 
14 ^ v Z? P Th K ld f S -° f t he trunk for ab0 ^ 4 ^ ^om the 
verr t ^ tJ TV? ab °? taninch thick ™* ^ °* course 
been Sen Tn W. below + ? e bark does not a PP^ to have 
In Ana ♦ ? th ^^PP^ parts are apparently un* 
^^A P |^^ F ^^"- A neW « dit - ^ the 
Botomc G iwfa* m the Royal 
oftheprevio publication 
the compofliti g.** ^ taken P laC , e in 
been acquire '"': h" >|-nes that have 
not now in ci !i " new edition ; those 
thenewedi- .' *« omitted. A feature of 
^•hiehreli, '/ Terences to publications in 
some of the species may be luund. 
