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to fruit these plant-." he would receive such assistance as Kew 

 could afford him. Bat in consequence of Mr. Dixon going abroad, 

 the plants were not sent to Kew till August, 1869. There was a 

 railway rruck load of them, made up as follows:— darctom 



Mingostana, 7 plants: Q. cockinchimnsi$, I ; Auona s</iMMosa. 9 ; 

 .4. r -ifu*fri'<. '!: A. Cherimolia, ,"> • Persea gratim'tiia. 4 : At rhoa 



Oaramboto,2 • Achms Sapota, 4 ; Baccau'rea dulcU, 1 ; Artocarpu* 

 xttiegrifoHot 1; Erythroxylon Coca, 12: Mangifsra indica, 1 : and 



Nephelium lafipaeeum, I. 



In 1871 Mr. Dixon wrote from Cherkley Court, his new estate 

 near Leatherhead, where he had built himself a residence and 

 begun laying out bis garden, which soon became famous, lie 

 particularly mentions his " wood of t>0 to 80 acres of dense and 

 hue old yews," and adds : " I hope thai some day you will alb. v. 

 me the pleasure of showing you this old druidicai grove. I think 

 it must be one of the largest extant.'' Lowe, in his Yew-trees 

 of Ureal Britain and Ireland, 1897, describe* it us perhaps the 

 finest collection of yew - in existence. 



-Mr. Dixon again took up the cultivation of tropical economic 



plants. He had also a very line collection of aquatic plants for 

 which he constructed a special house, and he was particularly 



successful with the Victoria regia. 



For many years he continued in correspondence with Kew, and 

 exchanged seeds and plants to the mutual benefit of both parties. 



In September, 1893, his residence was burnt down in the night, 

 and much was destroyed, but he rebuilt it and returned to enjov 

 many years among his favourite plants. 



His last letter to Kew is dated May 19, 1899, and in this he 

 agrees to the Director's suggestion that a plant of the 'Gordon 

 Lily,' which he had presented to Kew. should be sent to the 

 Queen's garden at Frosrmore. 



W. B. H. 





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Portrait of Mr. Gustav Mann —A medallion portrait of this 

 gentleman has recently been presented to Kew. There are few 



that 



Western 

 Barter as 



Africa. He succeeded the unfortunate Charles 



Collector for Kew, on Dr. Baikie's Niger Expedition in 1859, 



with remarkable and valuable results, mainly published in 



the Journal and Transactions of tlt>' lAnnean Soci^tt/. In the 



sixth volume of the Journal will be found Mann's highly 

 interesting narrative of the ascent of Clarence Peak (10,700 ftj 

 Fernando Po, and Sir Joseph Hooker's enumeration of the plants; 

 and in the seventh volume of the same publication Mr. Mann 

 describes his expedition to the Cameroons, on which he was 

 equally successful. He reached the summit, which he estimated, 

 from the boiling point of the thermometer, to be 12.271 feet, and 

 he made a very full collection of the plants of the temperate 

 region, which afforded Sir Joseph Hooker materials for a most 

 interesting comparison with the flora of the mountains of 



