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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



283 



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Twenty 'ninth Annual Report of the Metro- 

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Retirement of Dr. Campbell. 



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Campbell, LL.D., has resigned his office as 

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 by Sir Jas. Guthrie. 



Missouri Botanical Garden.— The 22nd 

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 -contains a series of contributions by the Director, 

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FlG. 135. — ROYAL INTERNATIONAL HORTI- 

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NOTES ON THE ECONOMIC FLORA OF 





6AZALAND. 



British 



worked 



TREES AND SHRUBS. 



One of the most interesting botanical contribu- 

 tions to the Linnean Society that has been made 

 for some time past has recently been published 

 in an unusually bulky number of the Journal of 

 the Society under the title of " A Contribution 

 to our Knowledge of the Flora of Ga /aland." It 

 is, in brief, a description of the plants collected 

 in 1906 by Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton, a Fellow 

 of the Society, and presented by him to the 



Museum, where the plants have been 

 up and described by Dr. A. B. Remlle, 

 F.R.S., Mr. E. G. Baker, Mr. Spencer Moore, 

 and Mr. A. Gepp, who, in the introduction to 

 the paper, acknowledge assistance in special sub- 

 jects from members of the Kew staff and other 

 botanists. 



Considered only from a scientific point of view, 

 the paper is a very valuable contribution to our 

 knowledge of the flora of a continent that for 

 some years past has attracted considerable atten- 

 tion politically, geographically, and economically, 

 and will continue to do so as the resources of 

 its several divisions become better known by a 

 system of development. Towards this end, Mr. 

 Swynnerton's notes, accompanying the collections, 

 are a pattern and example for other travellers 

 and explorers to follow. So interesting, indeed, 

 are notes given on the uses, by the natives, of the 

 plants described, that they ought to have a wider 

 circulation than is possible if they are confined 

 to the Linnean Society's Journal. By putting 

 such facts as the presence of rubber in certain 

 plants, of fibrous barks, or medicinal properties 

 in others, or, again, of the existence of valuable 

 timber trees, before a wider public may be the 

 means of drawing attention to new sources of 

 valuable commercial products. 



With this object in view, and with the permis- 

 sion of the Council of the Linnean Society, to- 

 gether with that of the collector himself, I have 

 made free extracts from the notes bearing on the 

 economic uses the plants described, giving them 

 in the same sequence of the Natural Orders as 

 that adopted in the original paper, and interpo- 

 lating here and there unpublished notes, for the 

 loan of which I owe my thanks to Dr. Rendle. 



It may be noted that besides the plants here 



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Fig. 



x 34- — ROYAL INTERNATIONAL HORTI 

 CULTURAL EXHIBITION. 



(Cup presented by Lady Colman.) 



The 



FORSYTHIAS. 



Of the three species of Forsythia mentioned in 

 the Kew Hand List of Trees and Shrubs, by far 

 the best for gardens is Forsythia suspensa, which, 

 as a shrubby climber or rambler, is valuable for 

 covering walls, pergolas or arbours. If pruned 

 back hard after flowering, it may be grown in 

 bush form, and in this way it is charming. 



other species are Forsythia viridissima, 

 which is shrub-like in habit and flowers later 

 and less profusely than the preceding, and the 

 comparatively new F. europ^a, which, interest- 

 ing as being a native of this continent, is far 



inferior to the other two. 



A hybrid between F. suspensa and F. viri- 

 dissima was raised many years ago by Herr 

 Zabel, of Munden, Hanover, and given the name 

 of F." intermedia. This in time justly became 

 a favourite, and is now generally grown. Since 

 then other forms of F. intermedia have been 

 raised on the continent and distributed. The 

 best of them, as far as my experience extends, is 

 epectabilis, which is uncommonly free in flower- 

 ing, while the blossoms are of a rich shade of 



yellow. -« — „ m - 



intermedia itself. Though I obtained the variety 

 spectabilis from the continent half-a-dozen years 

 a cr , it appears at present to be but little known 

 in this country. Its merits, however, are so 

 great, and it is so readily propagated, that it 

 should ere long become generally distributed. 

 Among other forms of F. intermedia are densi- 

 flora and vitellina, but in my opinion spectabilis 

 is far the best. W. T. 





e tne »iossuui» die ui « **v,** ~ .~ — 



It is scarcely as free in growth as F. 









Fig. 136.— royal international horti 



cultural exhibition. 



(Cup presented by Messrs. James Veitch & Sons.) 



