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delight at the revival of Sikkim memories. And in a similar 

 letter on October 27, 1884, he strikes the same note : ' Abies 

 dumosa seeds will be most acceptable, as we have lost it at 

 Kew. Only to-day, I gave Masters a pencil drawing I made of 

 it in 1848, for Gardeners' Chronicle.' , 



November 18, 1882. Mr. Duthie has been planning an 

 extension of the Mussoori Gardens for European plants : 



I am glad to find that the ' powers that be ' support you 

 so well, and that your European Garden is likely to be carried 

 out, upon a scale that will necessitate a European gardener ; 

 you must never rest till you get this, for I quite agree with 

 you, that without a European it will not work. 



November 20, 1883 : — I am glad to hear of your being 

 utilised for the Lahore Garden. Botanical matters want 

 drawing together in India very badly. 



On this point a note of June 22, 1884, to Hodgson records : 



King * of the Calcutta Garden and Mr. Duthie x of the 

 Saharunpur too, are both home now and I have been at the 

 India Office with them about getting a better botanical 

 organisation in India. 



In the spring of 1883 Mr. Bolus sent from South Africa a 

 paper on the Cape Orchids and a quantity of specimens ; all 

 was put into shape by one of the Kew assistants, and the 

 paper duly read at the Linnean. Hooker's suggestion of a 

 botanising trip to the north-west bore immediate fruit. 



To Mr. Bolus 



April 18, 1883. 



What you say of the richness of S. Africa in terrestrial 

 Orchids is truly surprising and a curious contrast to Aus- 

 tralia where the Order abounds in specimens but where there 

 are no great number of species. The way the Caladenias, 

 Prasophyllum, Diuris and Pterostylis come up through the 

 grass everywhere in Tasmania is enchanting, one gets 20 

 or 30 species at once, but extending the area adds but 



1 See p. 275 and p. 281 respectively, 

 vol. n. B 



