WIND AND BIRD GARDENS 



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No. of 



1888 



.890 



Willow. 



100. O O 



101. O O 



1 02. Nightshade o 



103. o o 



104. o o 



105. o o 



1 06. Currant 



Willow Herb 



107. Thorn 



Dock seedling 



108. Comfrey, Rose 



109. Blackberry 



no. Grass, Chickweed 



in. Elder 



112. o o 



113. o o 



114. Willow Herb 

 Bridge near Parson's Pleasure. 



1900 



o 

 Thorn 



Nightshade 



1911 

 o 



TOTAL NUMBER OF EPIPHYTES RECORDED IN THE YEARS 

 1888 and 1890 1900 1911 



183 138 90 



This marked impoverishment in the flora of the Willow- 

 gardens has not been wholly due to the reduction in the total 

 number of suitable Willows. Depredations by visitors have 

 been frequent, and so have cases of arson, especially during 

 the abnormal drought in the summer of 1911, which not only 

 caused the death of many of the older plants, e.g. of the 

 large Mountain Ash, but also of many seedlings, and hindered 

 the germination of seeds. 



The surveys of the Willow-gardens were made in all cases 

 at the end of the Long Vacation or at the beginning of the 

 October term, and greater attention was paid to well-established 

 perennials than to the seedlings of annuals which could not 

 be expected to endure. Had the census been taken earlier 

 in the season, many more species would undoubtedly have 



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