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that you will be so good as to assist me to carry out the wishes therein 
expressed, and in so doing confer a great favour on the Colonial 
Government. 
I am informed that Mr. Hutchins has been requested to furnish a 
report upon the successful results attained with the acorns previously: 
supplied, which will doubtless be forwarded in due course to the Roya 
Gardens at Kew 
With apologies for thus troubling you, 
I am, &c., 
W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, Esq., (Signed) CHARLES MILLS. 
Royal Gardens, Kew. 
CONSERVATOR OF Forests, King Williamstown, to ASSISTANT 
COMMISSIONER OF CROWN LANDS AND bii Mm 
Sin, h September 
Nr unos to correspondence sitios the success of 
the us Cerris received from Kew nine months ago, and 
the “ficult o of “obtaining these acorns elsewhere, I have the honour 
to suggest t he Kew authorities be addressed with the view o 
owing us to a their acorns again this year, and annually for the 
future. 
The great importance of growing oaks in these forests : that they 
are Fea which by their dense shade keep down the grass, the burning 
of w. does so much damage to the forests every winter. 
The Turkey oak being better adapted to the climate of this country 
than the common oak, Qu ercus pedunculata, its extended propagation 
is of the first importance 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) D. E. Hvurcuiss, 
The Assistant Commissioner of Conservator of Forests, 
rown Lands and Publie Works. Eastern Division. 
—For “cym laterali axillaria" (Kew Bulletin, No. 85, 
p. 31, second line from bottom), read “ cyma laterali axillari." 
For C P EN (4th and 20th lines p. 67, Kew Bulletin, No. 86), 
read * Argyreia 
