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many years head gardener to Earl Brownlow. He went thence, at the 
instance of Colonel Talbot, to his estate, Worthy Park, Jamaica, to con- 
duct some ne cultivation which he was anxious to promote. 
There Mr. ra — ed good experience in the cultivation of tropical 
industrial p will be — remembered in connexion with 
the exhibit of. r mei extracted by him from West Indian flowers— 
a marked feature of the Jamaica Court p = Col.-Ind. Exhibition, 
1886. Mr. Gray did good work in planning, layin à 
“fully planting what was a half-filled swamp Pid it first came into his 
but which in three bong time he transformed into a beautiful 
garden, which, though small, is an ornament to the town, and a much 
appreciated resort and bre ati E ca for the townspeople. He intro- 
duced many varieties of plants and flowers, and the collection of roses at 
the station was at one time perhaps the finest in the West Indies. Inthe 
matter of economie plants he raised and distributed thousands of cacao, 
coffee, n nutmegs, a few cola and sisal. n the whole, from one cause or 
other, the economie section of the station was not so apparent a success 
‘latterly as the purely horticultural.” 
number were drawn rae E flowered a gsoni, 
one of the handsomest magnoliaceous nun from dio Himalayan region, 
owered in the temperate house after twent vation. Aci 
anthera eguinoctialis is an — plant inhabiting the Sugarloaf 
Mountain, Sierra Leone, corms of which were sent to Kew by Captain 
Donovan in 1893.  Lonicera ‘Alberts is a pretty eae of the 
Aylosteum section discovered in M ars Turkestan by Albert von 
egel. Acacia spadicigera is one of the few species of the genus 
having very large horn-like spines, which are mens: inhabited by ants. 
It is a native of Central America. yrtopodium virescens is 
"T T E of the tribe Vandee, TNA Me.s by Messrs. Sander of 
St. À 
Hand- om of Trees and Shrubs grown in Arboretum. rt I— 
Polypetal The purpose and scope of this publication is explained in 
the following extract from the Preface :— 
The present is the first of a series of Hand-lists of the collections of 
living plants UN in the Royal Gardens which it is intended to 
issue from time to t 
It is hoped that dier will be found useful in indicating to visitors 
interested in A Erape of plants, the species which Kew already 
possesses. In the ds of correspondents they will serve to show in 
what directions the pom ey be added to. Jt is further hoped 
that they may be found of some value in establishing an approximate 
standard of nomenclature, which i is often much confused in gardens and 
too frequently erroneous. 
his is ic the case with woody plants (shrubs and trees) 
ee in the open air. The preparation of the present list has 
-acco Nia been taken in hand; it represents the m A many years, 
. and has only been accomplished with considerable labo 
A rough census of the species and distinct varieties of "- eultivated 
at Kew Sabe the total number as, approximately, 20,000. Of these 
3,000 : are har dy shrubs or trees. 
