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LIX.—_VIEWS IN THE NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDEN 
OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
We have recently received some photographs taken at Kirsten- 
bosch by Professor H. H. W. Pearson, two of which are reproduced 
on the accompanying plates. 
rollowing particulars were sent with the photographs. 
In Plate I. is shown a view looking West taken from within the 
boundaries of the estate. Two of the best known of the Table 
Mountain gorges are shown— Window gorge to the extreme right ; 
Skeleton gorge slightly to the left of the centre. Both these deliver 
perennial streams into the gardens. The upper boundary is not yet 
nown ; for purposes of protection it will doubtless be placed on the 
top of the ridge; in a strict sense the western limit lies at least 
700 feet up the slope, and includes the lower ends of the gorges 
which are richly wooded with native trees. The Curator’s house is 
shown on the left. The trees nearest the foreground are camphors, 
part of an avenue planted 18 years ago by Mr. Rhodes. 
late represents a view looking due South along the 
“Rhodes Road.” All the area visible lies within the gardens. 
The Table Mountain range lies out of sight on the right. The 
Director’s house will be built on the summit of the ridge a few 
yards to the right of the present road. The trees forming the 
Avenue are Ficus macropylla (?) in pipe foreground ; camphors 
or 
which are many Silver trees (Leucadendron argenteum). | The pines 
are now being taken out, with a view to covering the ridge of the 
hill with Silver trees. ; 
A nursery has already been formed, and one of the photographs 
sent by Professor Pearson shows a bed of the succulent plants 
recently presented to the gardens, which represent the nucleus of a 
collection that should be unsurpassed by any other institution. The 
nursery has been placed on a piece of gently sloping ground with 
the Curator’s office close at hand, and the slope is being terraced to 
form suitable nursery beds. Over 1000 species of plants have been 
sent in for cultivation since the commencement of gardening 
operations on July Ist. - 
The five Trustees of the Garden have now all been appointed. 
The names of the three Government nominees and of the repre- 
sentative of the wee mer of Page ‘own vail Tees re 
. fth Trustee, the representative 0 e 
My Srbane ge ; W. Duncan, M.L.A., 
; cited by these authorities. These difficulties have not been 
experienced by the writer alone ; they are reflected in the arrange- 
ments adopted by botanists so competent as Drége and Meyer, 
