ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
APPENDIX III—1913. 
NEW GARDEN PLANTS OF THE YEAR 1912. 
The number of garden plants annually described in botanical 
and ortisuleurad publications, both English and foreign, is now so 
considerable that it has been thought desirable to publish a com 
plete list of them in the Kew Bulletin each year. The following 
urin: 
list comprises new introductions reootied during 
These lists a ispensab] t 
nomenclature, especially in the smaller botanical establishments in 
correspond ew, which are, as a rule, only scantily pro- 
vided with horticultural periodicals. Such a list will also afford 
information OF eae new plants under cultivation at this establish- 
ment, many of which will be distributed from it in the regular 
course of sxohadie with other botanic gardens 
The present list includes not only dante abipht into cultivation 
for the first time during 1912, but the most noteworthy of those 
which have been re-introduced after being lost from cultivation. 
Other plants included in the list may have been in gardens for 
several years, but either were not described or their names had not 
been authenticated intil recently. 
In addition to species and well-marked varieties, hybrids, whether 
introduced or of garden origin, have been included where they 
been described with formal botanical names. Mere cultural forms 
of well-known en plants are omitted, for obvious reasons. 
n every case the vit is te under its published name, although 
some of the names are doubtfully sia Where, however, a 
bo sean has appeared desirable, this is 
me of the person in whose: dehiestion the plant was first 
‘igtited or ie decertbott’ is given where wn. 
An asterisk is prefixed to all those plants of which examples 
are in cultivation at Kew 
The Abeer from which this list is compiled, sige est 
abbreviations used to indicate a are as follows :—Bees, 
Bees, Ltd. Cathlogas of Hardy Plants. B. K.—Vaupel, blanende 
(30400—6a,) Wt. 212—780. 1125. 6/13. D&S. 
