ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN "Us 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
No. 99.] MARCH. [ióos. 
CCCCXLVI.—BOTANICAL GARDENS IN SOUTH 
AFRICA 
In the Kew Bulletin for January 1892, pp. 10-14, the change made 
in the character and function of the Botanic Garden at Ca ape Town was 
noticed. ‘This institution was ed onger x ea tamið Garden, but 
at Kew. p Dorin ng his residence in South Africa Mr. Si published : 
work on “ The of South Africa, co: si 
edd: (159). fee — the ferns and Ba nde with localities and tend 
notes," Wesley & Son 92.] More recently he has 
printed a “ Check list of the digened irek of Kaffraria.’ 
Consequent upon the Eds in the control of tbe garden at King 
William’s ‘Town, Mr. Sim has now left it, and accepted an appointment 
under the Forest Department 
The history of the Botanie Gardens in South Kine shows that they 
differed in many ways from such institutions as they exist in other 
countries. The ind gardens were only partially supported by Govern- 
ment, and they had to look to receipts from the sale of seeds and plants 
to meet their current expenditure. e posit ion is described in the 
Annual Report of the Cape Town Botanic Garden for 1883, p. 1 :— 
^ The garden is kept going mainly by the mercantile profits of the seed 
store. Its income, and consequent power to repair, rebuild, and 
Conducted on these lines iu was. Hp that the gardens 
racter w. 
equipped Botanic Garden, devoted to scientific work and carrying on 
agama cultivation, appears never to have existed in Cape 
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