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REPORT OF THE CALCUTTA BOTANIC GARDENS FOR 
E YEAR ENDING MARCH 31, 1866. 
By Tuomas ANDERSON, ESQ., M.D., 
Superintendent of the Gardens. 
The Gardens—The arrangement of the plants, according to the 
natural method, is nearly completed. Groups of nineteen Natural 
Orders of exogenous plants have been formed during the year; with 
the exception of Rubiacee and Urticacee, all the large Natural Orders 
of this class of plants are now illustrated in the garden. I have pur- 
posely deferred planting the species of these two Orders, as the plants 
belonging to them suffer little from long-continued cultivation in 
flowerpots. The Orders represented during the past year are :— 
Passifloree. Ebenacese. Solanacese 
Cacte:e. Apocynacez. Scrophularinee. 
Araliacez. Asclepiadacez. Labiatese 
Groodenoviacesm. Loganiacese. Euphorbiaces. 
Myrsinacese. Convolvulacese. Aristolochiacese. 
Sapotaces. Boraginaces. Piperacese 
Piperacee have been planted in a thatched shed, as is practised by the 
natives of Bengal and other dry parts of India, and under this shelter 
are growing all the numerous varieties of Betel cultivated in Bengal, 
and also several wild species. The collection of Palms, consisting of 
about eighty species, has been rearranged, by bringing together, as 
far as was possible, all “the different species scattered throughout the 
garden. Many large specimens brought from distant parts of the 
garden have been successfully planted in this group, which is now in a 
very satisfactory state, and will, in a few years, be © one b eus most 
striking features of the garden. 
The collection of Orchids has been more than doubled i in number 
during the past year, and is now a very extensive and valuable one. 
It has been placed in two of the thatched conservatories lately erected 
by the Public Works Department in lieu of those destroyed by the 
cyclone, and the plants have been arranged in them by being sus- 
pended in baskets from the roof at different heights over rockworks 
covered with Ferns. 
.. A garden was formed, in October last, on part of the land restored 
_ by the Agri-Horticultural Society, for the cultivation of all the annual 
