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A large consignment of trees and shrubs was sent to the Arnold 
Arboretum ; cuttings of Salix to the Forestry Department, pce 
East Africa; plants and seeds to Darjeeling Botanic Garden 
collections of greenhouse plants to St. Andrews and Leeds Sage 
sities ; a collection of economic plants to Eton College for the 
botanic garden; bamboos to 2 oper: J. H. de Lehaie and 
Monsieur Maurice de Vilmorin, etc., ete. There was a large demand 
for seeds —_—, at Kew and acest ‘for distribution in Bulletin, 
Appendix I., 1910. 
In connection with the opening of Cambridge Cottage as a 
museum of British Forestry, the garden of the cottage, which is 
enclosed by its original walls pierced by two wrought-iron gates, 
has become accessible to the public. 
The largest consignment of new trees and shrubs received during 
the year was from the Arnold Arboretum. The Assistant Curator 
visited this establishment during the summer with the result that 
about 500 species and varieties were noted as desirable for the Kew 
collection. Almost all these were sent by tee tae and 
50 packets of cuttings in one of the cold storage rooms where the 
temperature during the voyage was kept at about 42° Fahr. Ten 
days elapsed between taking the cuttings from the plants in the 
Arnold Arboretum and placing them in the propagating frames at 
Kew, but although this was in mid-July, they arrived almost as 
fresh as when they were cut and only six sorts failed to strike root. 
Among the more interesting plants sent by Professor Sargent 
were a set of American Am sigachiere—6 genus which badly needs 
revision ; several new species of North American /isculus, a set of 
dwarf American Crataegi, about 160 Chinese trees and shrubs 
introduced by Mr. E. H. Wilson, a set of American and Asiatic 
Willows, and such rare plants as Leitneria floridanum, Larix Lyallii, 
Kalmia caroliniana and K. microphylla, Pinus pentaphylla, Pteroceltis 
Davidiana, Tripetaleia bracteata and Vaccinium membranaceum. f 
special interest was a new and undescribed species of Hamamelis 
from Missouri remarkable as flowering in spring like the Asiatic 
species ; the ted American species previously known, H. virginica, 
flowers in autum 
Mr. Maurice r de Vilmorin sent in March a most interesting 
coma which has since flowered and been figured for the Botanical 
agazine. 
pa Veitch have, as usual, been generous donors of their new 
Chinese plants ard through them the followi wing have been added to 
the Kew collection: Meliosma cuneata, Picea complanata, Pterocarya 
hupehensis, Rosa Willmottiae, Rhododendron nigro-punctatum, Vi- 
burnum theiferum, V. pend and J’, Davitii, Lonicera 
yunnanense, ge yunnanense 
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