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much good work in re-introducing them. Such shrubs as Vaccinzum 
hirsutum, Rhododendron arborescens, Gaylussacia brachycera, Kalmia 
cuneata and Fothergilla major, are a sample of the many delightful 
plants which have in this way been restored to us. Many quite new 
species have also been introduced to cultivation, whilst others, long 
known but rare, have been made more plentiful. 
Next to the woody vegetation of his own country Professor 
e 
“ nineties.” It would need too much space to enumerate half the 
things introduced through him and the institution he controls. 
But amongst them the following are especially noteworthy :— 
Syringa japonica and S. pekinensis, Cercidiphyllum japonicum, Phello- 
dendron sachalinense, Rhus trichocarpa, the typical Prunus triloba, 
P. Sargentii and P. subhirtella, the oaks mentioned above, Picea 
Glehnii, Betula Maximowiezii, Rhododendron Kaempferii. On behalf 
of the institution in its relationship to Harvard University, two 
collectors, Messrs. Wilson and Purdom, are now travelling in China, 
and the former had previously spent two or three years there in the 
same wor 
advancement of knowledge in re ‘ 
¢ gard to North American trees and 
shrubs, and although now in advanced middle age, he still retains an 
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natural haunts. He has also introdu 
Seas ced luable North 
Asiatic trees to America and thence to Thurays. "Pres rene the 
or exclusi 1 i ire i 
esd the plants he introduces ahead basing sitar? ataeed. in 
gs ens, and the limits of his generosity appear to be set only by 
the possession of a single plant of a kind. 
The literary work of Professor § 
he i argent ed with the 
publication of the IXth Volume of the “Tenth ‘Choeeaf ee United 
a eepiiied by various particulars in regard to habitat, uses, 
peg rom 1888 to 1897 he published a weekly journal 
© forestry and horticulture—Garden and- Forest—which 
