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Landscape gardening was his oneal: métier, and appears to 
have been an inherited faculty from his father, who laid out man y 
important gardens in England and in Sydney. 
During the thir en years of his Directorship, which he resigned 
in September, 1909, the changes in the garden were profound ; 
lawns have splined aphbes formerly wilderness, vistas have 
- been opened up which have given a great air of spaciousness to the 
grounds, and swamps have been transformed into lakes. . In addition 
to his purely garden work the plant collections were enlarged to 
14,000 species, and a special collection of Australian Acacias and 
Eucalypts was formed. 
he garden, to which he was devoted and which owes so much to 
his skill and foresight, forms a lasting memorial to his work. 
Guide to the Royal Botanic Gardens.—The “ Official Guide ” to the 
Royal Botanic Gardens has long been out of print, and to meet 
the need of some publication dealing with the ogtledtiots of living 
plants a new guide entitled a “ Popular Official Guide” has been 
prepared and recently published. 
The guide consists of 104 pages of text with map and index. 
The map and key plan is taken from the latest survey and indicates 
the position of the more important collections. Wherever reference 
is made in the text to particular plants its approximate position on 
the map is indicated and can easily be found by means of the 
squares into which the map is divi 
The guide is divided into sections, Means of approach to the 
gardens and the general arrangement of the plants occupy the 
opening paragraphs, which are followed by a short Historic Notice 
of about twelve pages, in which the gradual development of the 
gardens is trace 
The collections are then described in some detail under the 
headings “ Botanic Gardens,” comprising the portions of the grounds 
i eu nd “ Arbor 
and cross references to similar plants in other parts of the gardens 
are gi ven. 
he glass houses are described in order of their numbers. In the 
portion devoted to the museums only the more important products 
of economic interest are mentioned, and as a rule only those of such 
plants as may be found among the collections of living plants. For 
fuller details the guides to the different museums should be 
consulted. 
The Arboretum is described under four headings for the con- 
venience of visitors. The first portion lies between the Kew Road 
and the Holly Walk, which contains especially the collection of 
Leguminosae and Rosaceae, ‘The Pinetu um, where the collection of 
Conifers is to be found, the Lake, and finally the ne aga of the 
Arboretum tying bétween the Sion Vista and the Tham 
Here are to be found the Oaks, Elms, Poplars, Birches, &e., as 
well as the Desiloo Garden, Azalea Garden and Rhododendron 
Dell. 
