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Presentations to Museums —Forestry Exhibits. — Miss Talbot, 



Margam Park, Glamorgan, has presented to the Museum the 

 following specimens of home-grown timbers : 



I. Section of young Sycamore (Acer Psendo-platamis) 



showing effect of pruning. 

 II. Sequoia gigantea to illustrate branch formation. 

 III. Plank of Larch (Larix europaea). 



The Right Hon. the Earl Bathurst, C.M.G., Cirencester Park, 

 Gloucester, has presented a plank of Scotch Fir (Pinus sylvestris). 



Col. Sir Ivor Herbert, Bart., C.B., M.P., Llanarth Court, Raglan, 

 Monmouth, lias presented an interesting and valuable series of 

 timbers grown on the Llanarth Estate, Monmouth. 



J. M. H. 



Botanical Magazine for July —The plants figured are : Odonto- 



glossum Leeanum, Reichb. f., Montanoa mollissima, Brongn., 



Kennedya retrorm, Hemsl, Stewartia M alack ode ndr on, Linn., and 



Phyllodoce Breweri, Maxim. The Odontoglossum is a natural 



hybrid, of which the parents are supposed to be O. gloriosum, 



Lind. et Reichb. f. and 0. triumphans, Reichb. f. The figure was 



prepared from an inflorescence sent to Kew by Baron Schroder, The 



Dell, Eghain. Montanoa mollissima is a white-flowered Mexican 



Composite, not unlike a small-flowered Dahlia. The Kew plants 



were raised from seed received in 1902 from the late Sir Thomas 



11 an bury, and are grown in a greenhouse. Kennedi/a retrorsa is 



a new species from Eastern Australia, very distinct in its densely 



retrorse-pilose pods. The seeds from which the Kew plants were 



raised were recetved from the Sydney Botanic Gardens under the 



name of K. procurrms, Benth. Its flowers are rose-purple, with a 



wnite spot on the standard. Stewartia (often written Stuartia) 



Malachodendron is a white-flowered shrub or small tree, native of 



Eastern North America, and allied to tbe genus Camellia. Though 



an old inhabitant of English gardens it is not in general cultivation. 



1 ne specimen figured came from a plant in Sir J D. Hooker's garden 



at Minningdale. It is hardy at Kew. Phyllodoce Breweri is a 



pretty Ericaceous plant from the Alpine zone of the Californian 



bierras. It flowers at Kew in May and is quite hardy, but a slow 



& iower. heeds of this plant were presented to Kew in 1896 by 



the late Baron von Saint Paul-Illaire, of Fischbach, Silesia, the 



founder and President of the German Dendrological Society, who 



died on October 21, 1902. He was a frequent correspondent of 



2o I fet 7*° t0 the director in 1881, asking for 



JS! , £? X n endeavour t0 introduce foreign plants, especially 

 E t0 Germany, an object which he had very much at heart. 



tHWi + m * xcl ? an 2 e 8eeds and P lants t0 tb -e Gardens, and con- 



tai^ttn S , lb TT the Wetiungm der Deutsche n Dendro- 

 imeo^h- d I tl ^«r first appearance in 1893 to the 



