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DCVIL—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
MR. GEORGE A. BISHOP has been appointed by the aps 
of State for the $e on the nomination of Kew, 
intendent of the new Public Garden ree at Bermuda be 
the Public Gaede Act, 1896, * ssist in developing the 
agricultural and horticultural capabilities of the colony, upon 
which its prosperity largely depends. Mr. Bishop has had twenty- 
three years practical experience in every branch of gardening, and 
was lately head gardener and steward at Wightwick Manor, near 
Wolverhampton. He has, besides, considerable other attainments 
which seem peculiarly to fit him for the varied duties of his new 
post. He passed fourth in honours in the rms of the 
leetures on hortieultural subjects under the Wolverhampton Cor- 
poration, and appears to have been successful in raising the 
standard of the industry in the district. 
Botanical T for March.—All the Dee figured are in 
cultivation ew. Camptosema pinnatum is a shrubby 
leguminous stank from Brazil, whence seeds were sent to Kew by 
Dr. Shaan formerly Director of the Passeio Publico, Rio 
de Jane The flowers are two inches long, and are bright red- 
purple. B^ MIN Hartwegi is a Californian ae which 
has been in cultivation at nd foralong time. It is closely allied 
to E. grandiflorum. Das godseffiana was first sentto Kew 
in 1892, by Mr. Henry Millen, Tudor of the Bot Skea Station at 
gos. The species is nearly related to D. surculosa, which - 
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drawing in the * Botanical Magazine" unfortunately does ad 
represent the best variety, which has much darker green deed 
with more numerous spots. Hacquetia Epipactis is a curio 
umbelliferous plant, native of South Europe and Siberia. The 
flowers are yellow, in simple umbels, surrounded oad an involucre 
of rather large green bracts. Nothing is known as to its intro- 
duction into the Royal Gardens, where it has ace phos for 
many years. 
Botanical Magazine for April.—Allium Schuberti, a species 
which is widely distributed in western Asia, has long, broad 
leaves and rose-red flowers on remarkably long pedicels: the 
umbels being nearly S bang inches in diameter. Bulbs 
were sent to Kew by Messrs. Herb & Wulle, Nurserymen, 
Naples, in po , and flowere d in June, 1897. The luxuriant 
variety of e pretty AMyoectie fence figured, was 
eae by E. J. Lowe, Esq., F.R.S., who desired that it 
should be named after Mrs. Tec ie The native country 
of the species is not positively known, but_it is believed to be 
Switzerland. Crocus Maly isa native of pa C eamaten mountains, 
where it was discovered more than fifty years ago. The flowers 
are white or straw-coloured, with a a aey throat. Corms were 
