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before this. The opportunity emi be utilised to repeat that intending 
purchasers can procure the whole of the third series, containing 1 ,000 
plates, from Messrs. Dulau & Co., 37, Soho Square, W., at the reduced 
price of 5/., and eurrent volumes at the rate of 16s. each. 
Revision of Ordnance Map.—A fresh survey of the Royal Gardens 
having been made by the Ordnance Surveys, the Opportunity has been 
taken to obtain, through the courtesy of the Director*General of the 
had been long in doubt. Two of these may be placed on record. 
area in which cultivation is carried on under glass is 2:604 acres, and 
the linear extent of footpaths is about 14 miles 48 chains. 
half of the tmm establishment, and was, till! 1802, when Love Lane, 
which separated the two a was shut up, distinct from the 
eastern half, or Kew Gardens pro 
Love Lang itself started from ibs western side of the present Kew 
Palace, crossed the middle of the Palace Meadow, skirted the western 
boundary of the present Botanic Garden, passed the Lucombe Oak on the 
east, and then following the grass avenue through the Heath collection, 
took a course parallel with the Holly Walk and skirting the western 
steps d the Temperate House, to the Deer Par 
ew Bulletin. for. 189] mi 35, reference is made to two 
stood on the south-west side of the present Azalea Garden. The site of 
Merlin’s Cave corresponds with the small island in the lake nearest but 
one to the river; it had a duck-pond in front of it, which, — on 
mall scale, anticipated the present lake. The Summer House n the 
Gat 
of Ormond "Lodge. 
Lake in Arboretum.—This fine piece of we which is filled from 
the Thames is the source of A water supply of the whole estabita 
ment. It had gradually become filled more or less with mud, in some 
laces not less than five feet. ie The task of removing this has 
occupied the past three winters. A gang of reserve soldiers, supplied 
by the “National Association for the Employment of Reserve Soldiers, 
” has been employed for the purpose, the cost insi bape hag by a 
special vote in the estimates. The total cost has been about 3 The 
mud which had been all deposited from Thames water proved A have 
considerable manurial value, and is being employed as a top dressing 
for the poor soil of the Arboretum. 
Leguminose Co. —The collection of hardy ligneous Leguminose 
near the Pagoda has, petri the past winter, been entirely rearranged. 
