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The detailed monthly returns are given below :— 
January ... ove ive ati 46,561 
February a we 72,898 
March ... oe i ive 57,020 
Mprik 0,0 ved és ose SFO S878 
Maye ile fatresoyy bors eg ee 
June ine ane vee <a 329,335 
Paige: tah ea calc: Sa eee 
August ... ie sae 1,016,114 
September bie ies vou. 814,462 
October ... we ies me 139,009 
November has de 67,046 
December Hi us ea 43,600 
3,360,221 
—_ to sie 1909.—Additions to the collections of plants 
nurserymen and others. Contributions of plants and seeds have 
been received from the following botanic of plant :— : 
_ Adelaide. 286 packets of Australian seeds, 
Arnold Arboretum. wee packets of seeds and plants collected 
in China by Mr. E. H. Wilso 
Calcutta. Collection of esa from the Himalaya; tubers of 
Amorphophallus campanulatus 
Ceylon. Wardian case of orchids, including Dendrobium 
é. 
Demerara. Wardian case of plants, including Sapium Jenmani ; 
eeds. 
Gold Coast. Orchids and seeds of varieties of Elaeis guineensis, 
iti alm seeds. 
Kumaon- (Government Gardens). Lilium polyphyllum and 
Montserrat. Seeds of Pilocarpus racemosus for distribution. 
- Nigeria, African orchids, tubers and seeds. 
new to sudtivation-; 3 seeds of Boke ‘olde bos R. Rufiia, Psychotria 
fulva, 
Sierra Leone, Acidanthera aequinoctialis ; aan orchids. 
Nyasaland. Seeds of Securidaca longipedun 
Sydney. Plants of Vendrobium falconirostre ; spt of Australian 
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xchanges s were made with the Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh, 
Gianovs Cambridge and Oxford, and with most of the Euro 
gardens upon whom Kew is largely dependent. for seeds of those 
annual herbaceous plants which fail to produce seeds at Kew. 
Professor Pearson, of Cape Town, sent “? collection of seeds 
obtained by him in German West Africa and Angola. Captain 
Heneage, H.M.S. Hyacinth, obtained for ‘Kew seeds of Phoeniz 
