272 REPORT ON THE ROYAL GARDENS AT KEW. 
6. The Collection of Bulbs from the.Cape of Good Hope, augmented 
during the past year by a magnificent donation from W. Wilson Saun- 
ders, Esq., F.R.S., has been accommodated in the pits built for — 
Chinchonas. 
7. A large portion of the general collection of Orchids, whieh 
has been steadily inereasing for the last two years, is tempo 
deposited in No. 18, pending further alterations necessitated w 
the augmentation of flower-beds contemplated during the present 
pn m regards the general condition and ornamental appearance of wed 
shrubberies, walks, and flower-beds ; the cutting-up of the gravel paths 
by the tracks and waggons used in transporting plants, and the em- 
ployment of our men in this sert. have much prevented the usual 
progress of improvement in these part 
Important contributors of plants ind seeds have been, —Mr. Gustav 
Mann, our collector in West Africa; Mr. Oldham, our collector in 
Japan; Dr. Lyall, R.N., in British Columbia: Mr. Schiller, of Ham- 
burg (Orchids): and W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., whose magnificent 
gift of bulbs has been already noticed ; also Mr. Hoey has sent us large 
collections of plants from Japan. : 
In my last two Reports, I described the assistance afforded by us in 
introducing Chinchona plants into our foreign possessions ; namely, to 
India, where Mr. Markham’s exertions have achieved remarkable sue- 
cess, and to Ceylon, and the West Indian colonies, by the Royal 
Gardens. The following is a concise statement of the results :— 
Plants. 
On the Neilgherries,* under charge of Mr. cipe 72,568 
In the Sikkim Himalaya, under Dr. Ander 000 
In Ceylon, under Mr. Thwaites, about . . , . 3,000 
The accounts from J amaica, under Mr, Wilson, and Trinidad, under 
Mr. Crüger, are both very favourable. 
II. ARBORETUM AND PLEASURE GROUNDS. 
Winter Garden.—'The most important work in this department is 
the completion of the grand centre (212 feet long, by 137 feet broad, 
and 60 feet high) from the designs of Mr. cere Burton, by which 
E. dirwy this report is in the press, information has reached me from India to to the. 
the number of Chinchona plants in eultivation in the Aere 
ciliciti 4g 117,706. [They amounted to 167,215 on the Ist of June— 
