162 OBSERVATIONS ON KEW BOTANIC GARDEN. 



The stoves and green-houses have been built, with two exceptions, 

 in the neighbourhood of each other, in an irregular manner, and, 

 apparently, from time to time, as occasion arose for successive addi- 

 tions. Some of them are old, but in general they are in pretty good 

 repair. They may be described as follows : — 



1. A palm stove, 60 ft. long, containing, among other things, some 

 fine old palm trees planted in the ground. 



2. A stove, 50 ft. long, filled with a miscellaneous collection of 

 stove plants. ' 



3. A stove, 60 ft. long, with two small tanks for water plants, 

 occupied by a miscellaneous assemblage of stove plants. 



4. A small span green-house, 40 ft. long, with a miscellaneous 

 collection of small New Holland and Cape plants. 



5. A dry stove, 40 ft. long, in two compartments, filled with suc- 

 culent plants. 



6. A green-house, 60 ft. long, chiefly filled with fine specimens of 

 Cape of Good Hope and New Holland plants, among which are some 

 noble Banksias. 



7. A double propagating pit and hospital, 35 ft. long, with cut- 

 tings under bell glasses and sick plants in one division ; ferns, orchi- 

 daceous plants, and some other valuable specimens in the other. 



8. A green house, 30 ft. long, containing small Cape of Good Hope 

 and New Holland plants. 



9. A " Botany Bay" house, 110 ft. long, crowded with magni- 

 ficent specimens of New Holland and other plants, especially the 

 former. 



10. An old stove, reported to be the first house erected in the 

 garden, 110 feet long, in three divisions; one containing noble 

 specimens of succulent and other plants; the second, a stately Zamia 

 pungen*, palms, &c. ; and the third, a miscellaneous set of green- 

 house plants, together with a few forced flowers for nosegays. 



Many of those houses have brick pits attached to them on the out- 

 side, and there is a damp pit for raising seedlings in. All the houses 

 are heated by separate fires, and great inconvenience appears to 

 result from the soot produced by so many chimneys. 



The first thing to remark upon the specimens in the houses just 

 described is, that they are excessively crowded, and some of them 



