﻿The Hon. Alicia Tyssen Amherst publishes in Archaologia an 

 interesting 15th century treatise on gardening (written by "Mayster 

 Ion Gardener" about 1440-50), from a MS. in the Library of 

 Trinity College, Cambridge. The text is accompanied by an 

 interesting preface and glossary, the latter enriched by notes, 

 written early in the 16th century in a copy of the Aggregator 

 Practicus de Simplicibus. Miss Amherst is engaged upon a history 

 Of English Gardening, which is likely to prove an important 

 addition to the literature of the subject. 



Mb. G. F. Scott Elliot writes from Euwenzori, Uganda, where 

 he has been for nearly two months, about half of which time he has 

 unfortunately been laid up with fever. His camp is about Turn) ft. 

 up the mountain, which is covered from 7600 ft. to nearly 9000 ft. 

 with a deciduous forest, above which are bamboos. Mr. Elliot, 

 who has already sent home considerable collections, has obtained 

 about fourteen hundred species, including a violet and a tree heath, 

 collected at an altitude of nearly 11,000 ft. 



The Lindley Library, established in 1867 as a result of the 

 International Horticultural Exhibition and Botanical Congress 

 held m London in the preceding year, is held in trust for the 

 public benefit, and more particularly for the use of the Fellows 

 oi the Eoyal Horticultural Society, in whose rooms, at 117 Victoria 

 Street, Westminster, S.W., it is now placed It cannot be dis 

 sociated from the Society so long as the Society has quarters in or 

 m the immediate vicinity of London. The income at the disposal 

 of the Trustees is not more than sufficient to enable them to keep 

 up the current periodicals, and to purchase annually a very restricted 

 number of new books. It is proposed, therefore, to establish a 

 library Fund, to be administered by the Trustees,-Mr. Car- 

 ruthers, Dr Hogg, Dr. Masters, and Mr. H. J. Veitch,-in con- 

 junction with the Council of the Eoyal Horticultural Society One 

 of the most pressing requisites is a printed Catalogue of all the 

 books and pictures and of the rich collection of pamphlets, the 

 utility of which is at present much impaired by the want of such a 

 Catalogue The preparation of this would be the first duty under- 

 taken by the Trustees were funds placed at their disposal for the 

 purpose The Trustees would also be glad to receive donations of 

 horticultural and botanical works for the Library. 



iw L Q° r l 1 9 hancellor , ha3 at his di sposal the rectory of 

 Honmgton, Suffolk, vacant by the death of the Eev. Dr. Marsden 

 Hmd, the great authority on the Suffolk Flora, and the discoverer 



gton, Suffolk, vacant by the death of the Eev. Dr. Marsden 

 the great authority on the Suffolk Flora, and the disc 

 on the banks of the Trent of the insidious American pond-. 

 \Ye clip this paragraph from the Westminster Gazette of Se 

 A notice of Dr. Hiud will appear later. 



alect Society is anxious to include the Supple- 



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West Square, Southwark, 



ment to the Diction,,,;, 0 f /•./.<,/</, i'i.nu Xames among its publi- 

 cations for 1894. Those who have any additional names or notes 

 are invited to send them as soon as possible to Mr. Britten, at 18, 



