Many 
e end of the 
Pak à to dc the force of the 
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GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
297 
Numerous Ке vo — to the lesso! 
have been received from persons inhabiting the neigh 
pourhood, which in all cases age been refuse 
i e amount of benefit to be rt ie 
* subjects taught, depends mainly on 
which each receives from the 
esence of strangers would 
ARBORE кто: (IN THE PLEASURE GROUN 
and improvement of these em 
and keeping the surface round of grass, s 
as to allow the rain to penetrate the soil, now employ 
annually a great de labour, but 
за 
As, 
e young 
trees. gain stature this individual. Xem den be less 
require 
tandard е have been planted about the 
lak 
sery of Rare Tree vees.—Two acres of ground in 
Sabb vicinity of the Old Palace grounds have been pre- 
pared for the reception of examples of the rarer sorts 
London parks, and will be 
planted ае the coming season. 
Queen's. Cottage Grounds,—Many old and dead 
trees have been removed, and Tee acres of ground 
trenched and replanted with a — of forest trees, 
and many beds of shrubs have been fo 
Pinetum. —The progress of this collection has been 
aving thriven. 
Tt has been visited by many public and private col- 
lectors from various parts of the world, and especially 
from the United States, where similar collections are 
— The collection of Willows and Alders 
along the baks of the lake has been re-examined and 
as a security for correctness of 
e of the tallies being accidentally 
or mischievously мро sed. А plan of the lake banks, 
with the posi m of «жең species, tis been made for 
— referen 
Walls. ама connecting straight walk B 
front of the temperate-house, alluded 
in the report for 1873, has been complet "This 
commencing near Vista, and after a 
rt turn running through the collection of Hollies, is 
850 yards long by 4 wide, forming a perfectly straight 
avenue; about 4 ards of this were ed durin 
e past year and planted chiefly ium sem- 
pervirens and beds of flowering and evergreen shrubs 
Crossing thi k diagonally is a vista fro 
Pagoda lined with Irish Yews. This vista has been 
e Deer Park 
e : so as to loo 
o the village of Isle 
of it in a the о is border wi ith Japanese Reti- 
LE d. Extensive X emp of 
rd S have been pue оте ing M rios ган 
d wii sw 
Over that extensive piece Kd open proud, and is am 
ts ing out of the rough 
zh and to iln it will take much tim’ and 
hind collection of Clematis, uo Soe s, Cistus, 
ce, in harmony with its surroundings, hi en 
When finished the whole will be replanted, 
and the above-named collection of plants re-arran £ 
in it, hrs d egi with the Magnoliaceze and various o 
ers. 
leaena ox OF PLANTS AND veg bee E 
receipts duri i. the past year have been 4762 plants 
all kinds, an 4 2656 packets of seeds from 277 donor 
They were distributed as follows ' 
Шын. ue VAST 
Gilg? |5 "€ E 
“alae 1958 82) 92. 8 
HS | 3s ieee аа $b) = 
во |06 |558 БА | Fa | Е 
б ZI m н 9 
& O 
British Isles se 596 | 1051 | 1272 | 988 | 151 
pe i. 558 | 146 37 оз 19 
АК: . 9 616 | 249 14 31 
^ cdm А З 205 5 66 e 
Australasia .. Tl d 19 
Totals .. -| 23 | 2656 | 1882 | 1589 | 1291 | 277 
eeepc inlet ^ 
i - o о 
and garden of Harvard College, Cambridge, 
chusetts, and from Mr. F. Watts, o 
^" epartment of Agriculture, Washington. From these 
a great quantity of hardy, ornamental, and useful 
shrubs have been raised for рана ут to the colonies 
at hom 
and North n dia as w 
large stock of the e Liberian C Coffee has been 
obtained bt the kind ‘efforts of Messrs, ed 2 
ssessions, and 
Dr. Thwaites states js = Cape Coast Coffee, 
peg f which in nthe 
the i arri on I mentioned i 
re last year, is, Lu Aer iion ing that it was 
immediately 3 attacked by the leaf-disease, doing ines 
f$ pe Coast and Liberi 
Coffees, although they баст i m to differ га аѕ 
regards size of their respective ‘seeds yet, in the 
matter ч foliage, t there is great resemblance between 
th n this latter — they differ considerably 
from "t uii Co ant of Сеу X their pet 
n tex n 
being a eal yn more firm 
tapering more Lese to the bas E 
The disease and insect r тт by which of late 
years Coffee (P been attacked in India, Natal, Cey- 
lon, d other colonies, has directed y bine of 
the local and home Governments to this important 
culture, and given rise to a very sedium and onerous 
ence wi i 
it has been TE cfi 
others where the cultivation has been scarcely 
(3) to the iocur of new and 
this se me on the 
subject, I ha my answer with a packet 
wo m it is of ve ry rapid gro rowth, 
The subject of the ыр" S i ous vy ials 
for paper-making in the c do corre- 
en ар this subject with чы he Colonial Office, 
which is n progress. 
— Tobacco cultivation and eun manufactory in 
Jam uded to in my previous reports as due to 
the exertions of Sir J. P. Grant, in connection with 
Kew, are, I understand, rapidly a advan ancing. 
subj ^ of Cinchona — in the n 
elena has m 
again brought under 
owing to the fact of a 
in 
troduced there ten years ago from Kew, and whose 
culture been abando ^ men : = 
years of neglect to be in a fio condition. e 
ариу of the of that island for 
Cinchona culti has isputably 
ada and the ear of Continuing and extending 
is one that must depend upon other considerations 
The successful introduction of — febrifuge into 
India, Ceylon Jamaic ing now accom- 
plished, this subject no longer demands a notice in 
rhe prospects of тету anha cultivation, which is 
mportant | far le 
The plants of the 24 India-rabber of ue 
H brasiliensis),* whi my | 
robo. bà d been idi. d а India by ; Dr. King, 
Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic have 
safely arrived, 
Жайык which, owing to its 
* Called by an oversight Hevea elastica in my last report. 
and mode of pedes is not. чей adapted for c 
vation for this pur ешки ME 
чар, and that m e arrange- 
ent of me ar Sorn and in the A of indi- 
ds type 
A gar d tua has ben sent qe» Бен to superintend 
the Government ens а 
The following is А а ерд of the packets of seeds 
and plants sent out during the 
2 | 
Gigg | 8 : 
21281834 ТРИ E 
wg lonj eaj баеп S 
9791 90 ова sa] gE & 
мр 0.91 LS oo = 
BO | M9 Spa] gn gaj 8 
вло |m m 
British ne él. 845 | 4176 | 1163 | 257 | 95 
СЕРИ s n 69| 32 75 aT ae 
BE YI Ча а ys 9 
Аш sick. “ ру 3 501 | 210 38 ea ы с: 
America... wt x3 907 | -902 58 | 9| 16 
Australasia .. n s |132| ass T (et 8 
Totals.. -j 28 | 4136 | 6282 | 1376 | 319 | 157 
| 
Bri —The usual exchanges have been made 
with stor Botanic Gardens, with the кү. Horical 
tural Society, Chiswick ; also wit 
Contributions have bios сема" ге 
nurserymen, 
upwards of 130 additional sources. 
eat desirabilit ne 
more commodious "i go oof buildi dh 
Herbarium library, and collections of = 
gs of plants which have for twenty years b 
the gracious permission of Her Majesty, tem y 
ccommodated in the residence of the late 
Hanover, and which was tioned in the report for 
odre under of the Jodrell Pro- 
Ее “tot Physiology) in University College, 
Abou oe NGA from all parts of the 
orld is ceived at the — (chiefly 
pem selon ts due the d yea 
Number of Visitors in the Vear "T 
Total number on Sundays 359,237 
Total number on w morie $ + 340,18) 
! 699,426 — 
Greatest monthly attendance раны 155,728 
Smallest monthly attendance es 3,424 
Greatest weekday attend (Au gust : 3) 50,739 
Smallest weekday attendance iwecember 8).. 15 
Greatest Sunday С (June 21) 23,117 
Smallest Sunday attendance (November 15).. 4 
Number 4 ин in each Month. 
oe ,507 | July 104,527 
ebruary 9,413 | August 155,728 
March 26,048 | September 50,092 
April 83,310 | October 17,121 
May 148,808 | November .. et 7,66 
June 86,781 | December .. ae 3,424 
Home Correspondence, 
Pota af EE te oat your PT 
and n 
‘When this subject 67 
of git 7" 
i on re editorial 
is thro 
сдана raise 
and the an 
K- rrr! of what 
the questions or ditis Ities raised 
eh ‘mediante 
action of the m клен а 
only tend to make the зев 
ing more impregnable 
edge of 
slightest degree, ed 
and their 
It often ырбев 
that your correspondents misstate the Pierres ob- 
servations, and then raise an imagi 
does not exist. of your contributors says of me 
last week, p. 272 :—'' It is ctory to to know 
can be of value to the culti ." Now ifthisis true, 
it i it satisfactory, but е are no grow 
the statement contained in the sé 
ened, i as my m rincipal object from the beginni 
my ex with carbolic acid, 
reported а бобат "Chess icle for Jan, 2 
has been to find the means of effec — destroying 
But, says the preacher, 
t e a time to he s ae 
correspondent says (referr to the year 1844) 
“ he” (the corr ent) **hasa e ask from 
whence the Peronospora 
well ask where the sun 
babilities are, that 
came 
e Peronospora has always 
