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is, I think, well worth encouraging on a moderate scale, as the fruit 
hice ics, meet with a ready sale in the United States market. 
. The success which Mr. Tillson has met with in obtaining fruit 
io 'sGedlinge o nly 4$ years old is interesting, as under the most 
favourable cireumstances this rarely takes place in less than five years. 
Mr. Tillson says nothing as to the qualiy of the fruit produced. The 
best kinds of date palms are not raised from seeds but are grown from 
$ "e n 
. The Kew Bulletin for -— present year (pp. 161, 162) iei an 
mon of the results of the experimental cultivation of the date palm 
in Anstralia. According to the “ Annuai Piscis Report upon State 
LE zx qertmer in South Australia for the year 1894-95 " 
(pp. 6, 7), a seedling date palm about eight years old yielded 50 lbs. of 
fruit of fair -— fom. eight bunches 
m, &c. 
( Signed) x W. T. THISELTON-DYER. 
CCCCXCIX.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Visitors during 1895.—The number of persons who visited the 
al Gardens during the year i) was 1,407,369. That for 1894 
was 1,377,588. The average for 1885-94 was 1, 416, 887. 
The total number on Bandiys was 536, 181 and on week-days 
871,188. 
maximum number of visitors on any one day was 13,588 on 
June 3, and the smallest 104 on November 28. 
The detailed monthly returns are given below :— 
January - - - E - 15,026 
February - - - - © 12,60F 
March - - - = - 44,612 
April - - - . - 189, 
May > - - B - 162,784 
June  - ~ - - - 297,994 
- - - - - 164,672 
gust - - - - 288,420 
September - - - - 190,318 
October - - - - 49,630 
November - - - - 23,402 
December - - - - 17,909 
Y 1 407 1,407,369 
cal Magazine for December.—The plants figured are: Strepto- 
me Wendlondii, Aloe Luntii, Buddleia Colvilei, Bartholina 
ached and Musa rubra; all, except the Buddleia, from plants 
cultivated at rae The Streptocarpus, a South sige plant, will be 
remembered as one of those th wered so freely on the edge of the 
central area of w cactus Modes. The Aloe is one of Mr. Lunt’s 
