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acquired for the library, entitled A New System of Agriculture, 
being a peanaee Body of Husbandry and Gardening, by John 
Laurence, M.A.; London, 1726. The frontispiece of this work, 
which x8 dedicated to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, 
is a “ Perspective view of His Royal Highness the Prince of 
Wales’s House and Gardens at Richm ond,” om is no doubt 
ormer was the same as Ormon e House ; consequent there 
is no longer any doubt as to the position of the latt 
Date Cultivation in South Australia—The Kew Bulletin for 
1895 (pp. 161, 162) contains a note on the cultivation of the Date 
in South Australi lia. The following information records the 
continued success of the experiment :— 
EXTRACT from Fosse t upon State Forest Administration in South 
ustralia for the year 1897-98 (p. 8). 
Excellent dates have now been produced at Hergott plantation 
for six years running. Twelve palms have fruited there this year, 
and the sample of dates received in Adelaide in March last were 
distributed in the usual way and greatly appreciated, as on all 
previous occasions. The Deglet Nour palms at Lake Harry also 
bore some dates this year, the seed of which was rare Behind 
developed, but the flesh of the fruit was not as well matured as 
will no doubt ultimately be the case when the palms nin more 
thoroughly accustomed to their Australian surroundings. 
Natal Plants.—A brief notice of the first part of an illustrated 
work bearing this title appeared in the Kew Bulletin, 1898, p. 
Succeeding parts aed rapidly followed. The full title is: 
Descriptions and Figures of Natal bole toe Plants, with Notes 
on their Distribution, Economic Value, Native Names, é&c., &c., 
by J. Medley Wood, A.L.S., Curator nen Natal. Botanic Gardens, 
was t 
letterpress of as many different apekibas of slant belonging to a 
variety of natural oudass The second volume is entirely devoted 
It is to be hoped that the sale of the work is sufficient to justify 
“ yp tpersinagerte- because figures are almost indispensable to enable 
e begi n botany to identify plants, and this publication 
should 4 ave ce impetus to the study of botany in South Africa, as 
similar works have in some of our other Colonies, notably in 
Aust slants. 
