one 
155 
d thence to France and Belgium, to be memes into balsam, "E 
small cen is used aa for ME 
* Price ing 1893 were bad, first class i AER hen ji fetching 125 
ticals per fiil (or about 1657. per tii) and the second class, 45 "d 
per pieul (ubout 407. per ton). The e good quality known nee "buyers 
‘bold blocky almondy’ was scarce.’ 
CCCCLXVI.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 
Mr. I Henry Humpnrtes, in the employ of the Royal 
Gardens, has been appointed by the Secretary of State for the 
Colonies Curator of the Botanic Station at Aburi, on the Gold Coast, 
mphri 
succession to the late : illiam Crowth ies 
entered the Royal Gardens in Janua , having previously spent 
neatly nine years with Messrs. Kelway & Son, at Somerset 
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in Kiéiiefità ary Physics and Chemistry, Organography and Systematic 
Botany, and Economie Botany. 
Mr. Hues McMurray, in the employ of the Royal Gardens, has been 
appointed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the recomenda- 
tion of Kew, Head Gardener of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Peradeniya, 
Ceylon. Mr. McMillan entered the Royal Mai on the 21st Au 
1893. He had previously served at Cyfartha Cus 
Gardens in Sout e has tl nen the course of 
lectures at Kew, and holds e eig in five subjects, including. Brit British 
Boti. 
Mr. Jonn CnisNALL Moors, in the e a ofthe Royal Gardens, has 
been appointed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the recom- 
mendation of Kew, Curator of the mamas Station at St. Locis; in the 
Windward Islands, West Indies. Mr. Moore entered the Royal Gardens 
a attendance at lectures at Kew in med mets Organography, 
ener Botany, and Geographical B 
—The R toyal Gardens are indebted to nsu James 
about 9 c This was purchased from a Californian nurseryman 
1890. It Mowers in the year following, and a figure of it was published 
in the —— nical Magazine, t. 7222. Other large specimens among 
the rrivals are two of Echinocactus Wislizeni, each 6 feet 
high and parcum 4 ewt. Judging by the slow rate of growth " 
smaller examples of this species, which have been at Kew 10 yea 
these two large plants must be of very great age, probably huudreds P 
