ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
—— 



BULLETIN a 




No. 61.] JANUARY. [1892. 

CCXXIIIL.—AGAVES AND ARBORESCENT LILIACEZE 
ON THE RIVIERA. 
At the close of November 1891 Mr. J. G. Baker, F.R. iL , keeper of the 
herbarium and library, paid a short visit to the gardens wb Riviera 
for the purpose of studying the plants of Agave ‘and ated È enera, a 
the plants of such Arbor escent Zaapa as had been successfully intro- 
duced into cultivation in that par t of the world. It will be. recollected | 


prepared 
notes, prepared by Mr. epe deal with the plants of a few Ao 
only. They are, howev , of so much geueral icti that t. 
results of Mr. Baker's V barko will be read with interest :— 
The principal object of a visit which I made in N ovesiibor E 
1891, at the Mastigution of the Director, to the gardens of the Riviera, 
was to see the Agave and arborescent Liliaceæ growing there in quanti- 
ties in the open air. I have for some time devoted special ee 
to these two groups of plants, and have written papers upon t s 
which I have endeavoured to work out and vharacterise the species i aol Rc 
e 

we 
their range of variation studied from a small number of specimens 
grown in the conservator ies of England, France, Germany, and Belgium. 
t is quite obvious that the range of specifi ic variation is often far 
than was supposed whes. vary were first named and characterised, 

to obtain names fur ei So. I also wished to get any further 
light I could up yon the differences in the climatic requirements of the 
species. I was kindly itid by Mr. Thomas Hanbury, F.L.S, of 
the Palazzo Ong: La Mo ioci who has the largest, collection of these — 
plants on the Riviera, to pay him a visit. I stayed at his house more 
ian a week, and had Lei full opportunity of studying all the 
U 69936.  250.—3/92. Wt. 25860. r 




