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equipment of these large houses. Many kind friends of the 
ard 
houses valuable plants which mie now be brought to their new 
and palatial home, and a large number of members of the Garden 
have generously subscribed a eda sum of money, for the 
pues of desirable specimens and for sending a collecting 
xpedition to the West Indies. It is, therefore, hoped that an 
cae aa instructive display may be installed within a few 
nonths. 
The illustration, taken from a recent photograph, accompany- 
ing this article (Plate V.), shows the general features of the con- 
rvat 
the architects, the Lord and Burnham Company; Mr. John 
Sheehan is the general contractor; the superstructure above the 
limestone ee has been built by Hitchings and Company ; the 
0: n of a high grade of excellence, and has had the 
constant attention of the Commissioner of Parks, his engineers 
ors, 
and inspector: 
SamuEL HensHaw. 
MAY FLOWERS. 
many and varied are the flowers which blossom in the month 
of vey that it is difficult to select such as are of more seeming 
worth without slighting those which to others may appear more 
worthy. Many of the plant families make their appeal through 
their oddity, while others attract by their beauty of form or color, 
or delightful ec And in the class of oddities, perhaps 
the trilliums or wake-robins take a first plac 
usually hades a part of the lily-of- ae valley family, but 
<manly bear little resemblance to that sweet- scented flower from 
e 
herbaceous grounds, and of these one, the nodding wake-robin, 
T. cernuum, is also sparingly found in a wild state in the garden 
