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Additions and alterations to Gardens, 1912.—Additions to the 
collections of plants cultivated at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 
have been made during the year by exchanges with other eardens, 
private as well as public, and by pur rchase from nurserymen an 
ontributions of plants and seeds received from Botanic 
Gardens and other Institutions include the following :— 
Agri-Horticultural Society of India. Wardian case of 
Hibiscus and Cannas. 
Antigua. Plants of Melocactus communi. 
Arnold Arboretum. American and Chics trees and shrubs. 
British Guiana. Palm and other seeds. 
Calcutta. Two Wardian cases of Bamboos ; tubers of Amor- 
phophallus ; collection of Himalayan seeds. 
Dominica. ardian case of Begonias ; succulent plants 
Dunedin. Wardian case of plants ; ; collections ut native seeds. 
Kumaon. Orchids 
Mauritius. Palm seeds. 
Missouri. Agaves ; 5 _ seeds. 
Ootacamund. Orchi 
St. Vincent. Bulbs of “Hippeastrum equestre. 
Southern Nigeria. Wardian case of plants ; seeds of Raphia 
vinifera 
Sydney. Collection of seeds. 
Taniraal Plants of Musa ventricosa, Euphorbias, ete. 
Trinidad. Orchids. 
U.S. Department of Agriculture. Various pris 
U.S. National Museum. Collection of Californ 
Zanzibar. Two Wardian cases of plants ; polleceon of San- 
sevierta spp. 
xchan ere made with the Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh, 
Gimnere * Cahn and Oxford, and with most of the European 
gardens upon whom Kew is largely dependent for ae 2 those 
annual herbaceous plants which fail to produce seeds at 
Other donations to the Gardens include the following :— 
Mr. H. Darton, Hertford. Collection of pees mosses. 
i) Feet 
nee. Yee awe, Moreubiane bs an 
Capt. A. A. Dorrien Smith, D.S.O., Parkhamstl Seedlings 
of Australian plant 
e B kman, Berbera. Seeds of Cordeauzxia edulis 
(“ Yeheb”). 
Messrs. H. J. steele = W. R. Price. Plants and seeds 
collected in Form 
Messrs. Drége and Pillans, and Drs. Marloth and Schénland. 
South African Euphorbias 
Mr. J. Gossweiler, Angola. Collections of seeds. 
Lady Grey. Cuttings of a collection of Cape Heaths. 
Mr. A. W. Hill. West Indian Orchids. 
Mr. G. N. “Humphreys. Mexican seeds. 
Mr, G. Hartmann, Niederhéchstadt, Mr. C. H. Lankester, 
Costa Rica, Mr. C. eeu Bangkok, and Mr. F.S. 
Sillitoe, Khartoum. Orchid 
Eee Ee Cape = Numerous succulent em, bulbs 
d seeds. 
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