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a abe Plants.—Through Dr. B. L. Robinson, Curator of the 
Gray Herbarium, Harvard, Kew has received a set of about 260 s species 
of dried plants, including a number not recorded from the island in any 
of the existing lists, the most complete of which is embodied in 
e of Canadian Plants. One of the most striking 
numerous Vacciniacez and Ericacex, baleen the et PR 
berry-bearing kinds, which clothe the sw mps and open w Maco 
enumerates upwar rds of twenty species "belaia to the two apis] 
orders in question. 
North Mexican Plants.—Kew has acquired by purchase a collection 
of dried plants, numbering about 550 species, collected by Dr. C. 
Lumholtz. They are from the Sierra Madre region in the north-west, 
where Seemann collected forty-five years ago. There is a considerable 
number of novelties including a Pinus and a Bravoa—A maryllidaces. 
Orange-Growing in Florida and Jamaica.— The recent vM ge 
weather in the qaae United States wr dn o have ha 
destruetive effect upon the orange trees, pine RE, and oue id 
ous the orange groves 
than the first, when, as we have stated ER the crop of fruit was 
presto destroyed. ‘Che oa trees, which had not been killed 
had begun to put forth leaf-buds and fruit-buds, and this second coid 
wave B evidently destroyed these and apparently ruined the next 
crop.” In a later number (February 27, p. 90,) the same authority 
remarks : * But for pct hers periods of zero weather which 
favourable conditions for profit to. the growers." Dr. Mead quoted 
Gardener? Magazine (March 9, 1895), "E ien further 
particulars: * All early vegetables, as well as the whole crop of o; 
are ruined; oue gens thousand boxes of strawberries which would 
have been shipped between February aå and March 10 are at Aa 
Fine apples have Baen nearly all destroyed. ‘This serious frost 
coming after the previous destruction of the orange p” means 
absolute ruin to the Flori wers as now there will be no crop next 
year, if indeed, Florida is not permanently disabled in the matter of 
citron culture.” 
The effect on garden plants was equally destructive. The following 
extract is taken from a very interesting letter addressed to Kew, 
on the 25th February last, by Mr. H. Nehrling, "s the Public Museum 
Milwaukee :—“In my ‘South Florida garden, south of ME 28, 
bove z 
Thousands and thousands of orange trees were killed, nd most of 
