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DXII.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Mr. RosERT Derry, formerly in the employ of the Royal Gardens, 
and late Assistant Superintendent t of the Gardens and Forest Depart- 
ment, Malacca, a post recently abolished, has been appointed Super- 
intendent of Gardens, Perak. 
. ALFRED Parsons, Superintendent of the Annandale Gardens, 
Sinks at Ss has resigned his appointment on the reduction of the 
salary. e post has ceased to be filled by an officer possessed of 
‘technical knowledge 
Mr. Cuartes WAKELY has been appointed Staff Instructor in 
eerie d "eb the Technical Instruction Committee of the Essex 
County C He was for five years in the employ of the Royal 
dens, i. two and a half — of which he was sub-foreman in 
the tropical propagating departmen 
Mr. Wittram BriwpER, late foreman in the Temperate House 
ment of the Royal Gardens, died at Kew on January 12 last 
after a prolonged Miisa His service extended from 1871 to 1887, 
when he was retired on account of old age. The Superannuation Act 
of 1887 abolished pensions for men in Mr. Binder’s ernie and on 
his retirement he met? received a small gratuity. His case was, how- 
ever, taken up by the Gardeners’ Betiettileut Institution, from which 
. Binder received an annual allowance until his death. 
e Botanical Magazine for February.— Begonia e hero rade 
native of Brazil. is a robust species, remarkable for having hermaphrodite 
and unisexual flowers intermixed. ew obtained a piant from uste: 
Sander and Co., who imported it with orchids. ** Seutellaria formosana " 
is a pretty, half-shrubby [Ligen having dark purple flowers. It was 
sent to Kev by Mr. Ford, the Superintendent of the Botanic and 
Afforestation Department of Hong Kong, with the information that it 
fr LJ . . 
. javanica, S. 
species. Sternbergia macrantha is a handsome species received from 
of a century. is the most attractive of this striking but not very 
showy genus, Bifrenaria tyrianthina, a fine Rrazilian species, is an 
en older inhabitant of our gardens, having been introduced by th 
firm of Loddiges 60 years ago. The plant figured was obtained from 
Messrs. Linden, of Ghent, in 1893. 
. Relief House.—One of the great difficulties in maintaining a collection 
of plants under glass is the necessity from time to time of repairing and 
