Jaxwany 5, 1895. 
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PANDANUS ODORATISSIMUS. 
[SEE SUPPLEMENTARY ILLUSTRATION. | 
Tue big para oe which for the last twenty 
years has Teati f the most striking features of 
the Palm-house m “Raw: had to be sacrificed last 
year because it had overgrown its position. It stood 
opposite the entrance at the north end of the house, 
It had been kept within bounds as much as possible 
by thinning and stopping; but as the branches when 
cut never started lateral growths, although they 
forked naturally, nothing could be end be save the 
plant when 8 its leaders tg el 
Be moval, it had about Morty branches, 
each 2 a tare tuft of ghey and it meatured 
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7751 5 
ia rt and J. Smith, in hie Records of rag pub- 
shed in 1880, says it was 2 high in 1860 
1868 represents it as no 
with three branches, the central one only being 
forked, Mr. Worthington Smith made a drawing of 
it in 1876, when it would be about 20 feet high. It 
was then planted in a Jarge tub, but in 1882 a sunken 
pit was built for it, and it was by this means lowered 
about 5 feet. 
Twelve years ago it fruited for the firet time, = it 
since bas produced eae tet ite alm os 
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t produce 
they were drooping, 1 foot long, 9 inches eter, 
and composed of about 150 confluent wedge-shaped 
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ie 
Fic. 3.— WHITE CHRISTMAS STOCK, 
30 feet in height, with a diameter of 40 feet. Its 
weight would be about 6 ris 
P s were Ne in 
low, an 
one hundred sérial 
terete 5 3 iameter, solid and 
woody, like the trunk, and, like it, covered with 
short, tuberele- like — These roots 
never 
branched till they reac ound, Da when 
the apex was injured or hover: The | ingest was 
8 feet long, and unbran ishod above-gr oak It is 
„that whilat the br she te invariably 
ain. 
1 unable to give the exact history of this 
specimen, which travellers declared was finer than 
any ever seen in the tropics. It is mentioned and 
— in Philip Henry Gosse’s delightful little book, 
Conservatories at Kew, parishes 
drupes, each 3 inches long and 2 inches across the 
top. They remained green, and did not assume the 
orange-yellow colour of wild specimens. 
According to Aiton, in Hortus Kewensis, P. odora- 
tissimus was introduced into England in 1771 by 
M. Richard. I have not heard of a male plant 
of this species flowering in Europe, but a male of a 
saie 8 3 reflexus, uces its 
g drooping tails of white eee — tepen the 
— — oe is — abundant, and is sweet to 
he taste as well as deliciously — Indian 
— 5 as a hair-powder, 
Good pge of a male 
ative of the East Indies, China, and 
ir Joseph Hooker reduces it under 
P: e in his Flora of British India. 
It is only in large houses, such as that at Kew, that 
these tropical giants can display their full grandeur. 
Cultivators who know P. utilis, the best-known 
garden ally of P. odorstiseimur, can form some idea 
of what that plant would become if it bad space and 
fall jiberty. I believe the Kew plant would bave 
attained to twice the size it did if it bad been pos- 
sible to have sfforded the space for it. „ Kew 
CONTINENTAL NOVELTIES 
A WHITE CHRISTMAS STOCK, 
Amonastr several novelties in annuals figured in 
the 3 of M. Cb. Lorenz, Erfurt, Germany, 
is a white Christmas Stock, as shown in fig. 3, 
This variety is said to attain ite fall beauty at the 
very close of the year, thus furnishing excellent 
materials for the florist at atime when 
The seed should be 
j erwards pricked- -of 
mall pots, and placed in a 3 spot in the 
open, poor protection from frost is necessary. 
HOME GORRESPONDENGE., 
GARDENERS’ ROYAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. 
—I had sala. gd that nothing would have arisen 
etor evert to anything further respecting 
2 
et 
I 
evidently misunderstood., I said o the 
ode of voting by the subscribers. Like “ Enquirer,” 
I y called attention 20 many candidates 
being probably carried in tbrough the influ- 
e f the treasurer and committeemen, making 
less influential efforts fruitless and useless. 
I am f r indeed 80 t Mr. Veitch 
implied that I have timed an opportunity. This I 
, neither 
obtained, and the candidate questi 
authority for using the names it bears. ope 
guilty person will be brought forward and censured, 
sai. K 2 e, made an example a I suggest 
ogen to draw 
are more 
liberty, are very mischievous, and a serious injury to 
any institution, saying eee of the ish to 
the pil ing non- elected. 1 
tch will N y agree to 
hol i 
name — be u 
pae taki ebruary 8. 
is not treasurer to this fund, but he is a vice- 
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= same Institution that only six children are — be 
o its bene as actually nominated 
(with his full Chelsea ‘address), no fewer than four 
andidates out o irteen of thereby 
eee, g the eee of the others exceedingly narrow. 
F 
her, Mr. h says all this kin thing is 
very e and dec he is more 
ith t than I am; yet all eee! 
of influence has been open! on ſor years. 
ve ceased even ara the two annual dinners 
for some time; places cut dried, 
and got ready like the dinner. Fresh energies and 
re gat 
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i — poar em in your n l km ae 
‘ngram for his courteous reply my note 
the Gi Dec. 29, p. 782, 1 
d read the rule he refers to respecting the powers 
of the committee in in the matter at issue, I could 
