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Coryanthes macrantha. 
Cycadeae, 15 species. 
Dahlia imperialis. 
Eulophiella Elizabethae. 
Pachira insignis. 
Pinguicula gypsicola. 
Pycnostachys Dawei. z 
Rosa gigantea 
Typhonodorum Lindleyanum, a young plant two years old from 
seed ripened at Kew, bore four fine flowers. 
Solandra Hartwegii. 
Pergola for Vines——The need for a better means of exhibiting the 
collection of Vines ( Vitis and allied genera) at Kew has long been felt. 
Ever since the reorganisation of the Arboretum by Sir Joseph 
Hooker about 40 years ago they have been grown on a curving 
line of iron posts near the North Gallery, where they have had to 
be treated as bushes rather than climbers ; being pruned back every 
winter and the shoots being shortened once or twice during the 
summer. A pergola of the same type as the Rose Pergola has 
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Riverside Avenue.—The northern end of the belt of trees and 
shrubs between this Avenue and the Ha-Ha near the Thames, 
whose object is to hide from view the ugly workshops and ware- 
houses on the Brentford side of the river, has for some time been 
in an unsatisfactory state. In the belt were 30 to 40 middle-sized 
laurel, and others of smaller growth. They have been brought 
here from various parts of the garden, the larger ones being 20 to 
25 feet high. 
Owing to the widely spreading, hungry roots of the elms and to the 
widening of the avenue will 4 to distribute the traffic over it 
more thinly and to let in more light and air. a. : 
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