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THE: 
GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE. 
(SEPTEMBER 4, 1875. 
that the section to which the species belongs is that of 
Taeda, whose —* number isthreeina sheath, Dr. 
Torrey figures cribes his as ies i in a sheath, 
and we teeta аммо Mr. Worthington Smith 
to disregard those leaves where the number in the 
sh i as it might mislead those who 
only looked at the ое and not at the text, if an 
than in the Old World y omn and especially in the 
Mexican Pseudostrobi is the ber variable. 
o one can look at the tomes this species with- 
out seeing that it is very closely allied to P. ese 
osa ; and we can foresee that а но ofa future a 
ed all the well Marb mn will do as 
many of our own naturalists do who exhaust their 
ingenuity aking new species out of old ones, set 
be жата ета species се invi cem present 
form, deflexa. Where the limit lies between 
different forms, whi d. which species, 
we do not pretend to say ; Á€—M say, without 
ture or present, that they 
other and pon- 
all are closely € with Р 
derosa, an e merely climatal forms of the same 
type. io з Murray, 
THE ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
Sh following notes are extracted from the 
ors' report on the progress and еа of 
the rca Gardens at к during the у 4] 
426 in 
— wos the whole through- 
t, though there have been rela- 
ti у many more on Sunday As before, the - 
endance was à May and August. 
[mr alluded to in my " ear's report as bei 33 
contemplated, has been pesar and planted. It 
acked by ev 
most part the Old World species Es on one side, and 
the New ом ones on the oth 
Е e ра 
ou- 
sands are en, is most prejudicial to the 
general h "health of such "tender 
plants. About 150 
vari are planted out, many of them re- 
presented by both European and р 
еп 
fence in 
revent = visitors from 
handling the Lem and displacing bels. 
The collec: of as inns removed from 
m 
suffered from the intrusion of the roots off trees into 
prepared fi e west side o the I collec- 
tion on the other side of the wall Ma 
The collection been removed and planted in two 
deep beds of mixed peat and loam with broken bricks, 
which latter are found to be v 
centre of each to NGHE d sha summer and to 
protect the young growths from de cutting winds of 
ri 
ete lection of species of Iris has been extended 
along the whole length of the west wall of the he 
20 yards), and the collections of Сой, 
Amaryllis, Fritillaria, Colchicum, &c., have b 
сат. > new beds formed upon ‘the opposite side of 
the same wall. 
The | Orchid- house has had a porch with doable 
rium groun 
* This continues to be one of the most attractive features of 
; €— — About б species of alpine plans were grown | 
1j 
- A collection of carnivorous plants has been arranged 
on the table on one side of the porch, which, again, it 
necessary to protect from the curiosity of the 
public by a wire fence. 
In the Palm-house the beds of climbers round the 
walls under the side shelves have been renewed and 
new p put in, 
the ornamental conservatory (No. 4) t 
amellias have been planted out in beds dE Mira 
the = of Ман = л septs. 
t year practical lessons in vari 
departments of зе , and its kindred ы, Laure 
been given to the pine gardeners with a view of pre- 
rnment and 
wies a scientific 
knowledge of gardening, arboriculture, &c., is re- 
quired. The lessons given i 
Satya qualifying them 
rms in the colonies and India, 
he n the evening after 
hours, and embrace the elements of struc- 
t systematic, 1 botany ; of chem- 
istry, physical raphy, ogy in their 
application to ; )mic botany, 
, &c. They some in the young 
poeni ng ds ur DER R 
, but any one commenc- 
ing'one of the courses is required ZO. 
it and take notes, ——— agi 
these are examined e courses 
| short, and some of them are repeated twice or oftener | 
a tice 
during the year, so as to enable a succession of yong | 
gardeners ( кый үзө ot well attend to mo ore than one 
course at a time) to obtain instruction in all or - 
of the biete tau, 
e premised that no the gardeners are 
taken into the. service of the Royal ens who 
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