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Gardener's Magazine, vol. vii. (1831), p. 474, for whom Captain 

 Farrer, of the East Indianian "Orwell," brought home several 

 living plants ; this Mr. Tate proposed the name in compliment 

 to Mrs. Farrer. But the species was made known to the Horti- 

 cultural Society of London in the first instance by John Reeves, 

 who presented the Society with drawings and specimens. This 

 was the Reeves who, in 1858, introduced the plant of Wista * 



nensts 



one of the notable features 

 of the Chiswick Garden. Fortune re-introduced R. Farrerac 

 about 1846 and Lindley, overlooking its previous publication, 

 described it under the name of Azalea squamata in the 

 Journal of the Horticultural Societi/, vol. i., p. 152, and in 1847 

 a coloured figure of it appeared in the Botanical Register, t. 3. 



W. B. H. 



XL.-MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Mr. Frank Henry Butcher and Mr. Edmund George 



Stroud, members of the Gardening Staff of the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens, have been appointed by the Secretary of State for India 



recommendation 

 for service in India. 



Abraham Dixon.— The death of this gentleman, an old 



correspondent of Kew, is announced as having taken place on 

 April 40, at the great age of 92 years. He was an enthusiastic 

 Horticulturist with sufficient means to gratify his taste for the 

 pursuit, and he was specially interested in tropical plants of 

 economic value. His first letter in the Kew archives is dated 

 from Birches Green, Birmingham, February Z\, 1867, advising 

 the despatch of seeds of Coca* and seeds and fibre of « Bimba 

 Cotton, and requesting an interview to discuss the cultivation of 

 tropical fruits, concerning which he wrote : " I and my gardener 

 nave unfortunatelv mnnh mme ^oai «i^ n w*»«.«,i^i,..^ " Tv. c«Ha 



more zeal t 



ere, he must 



In spite 



__ --— "«"« "*- auu w 1BUgC) ue mu8I , nave naa various iropium 

 truit-trees under cultivation for some years at that date, because 

 in a communication of the following year he says : " I now write 

 to say that I have a valuable and, I believe, an unusually well 

 selected collection of tropical fruit-trees which I have imported 

 myself during the last few years from the East and West Indies 

 and South America, but which I have now some intention of 

 placing elsewhere, because I am preparing to change mv residence 

 from here to a small estate which J have purchased near Dorking." 

 He was prepared to present the collection, on which \u> had spent 

 much money, to Kew, on the condition that if in the future he 

 should be able to resume " the interest ing and attractive attempts 



• This was the ErytTiroaylon (bra, v*r. Nuro-gnunderue (.h>w Jiulh-thi, 18*9, 



k s i — ™~»v,v*c vi p*t*iiLs wen 



in various parti of the world. 



raised and distributed to numerous correspondents 



