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‘Botanical Magazine.—The number for august contains — of two 
from New 
orchids, namely, Saccolabium mooreanum, fro uinea, an 
Pleurothallis Scapha, from tropical America, but from as part is 
uncertain e latter, one of the most elegant of the genus, was 
contributed by Mr. Moore, the Keeper of the Glasnevin Garden ns, 
after whom the formes was named. Prochynanthes bulliana, is the 
Spire 
Heidi S. media, x var. aesti pires was drawn from a Ten t that 
flowered in the Arboretum last year. S. media, F. Schmidt, is, however, 
erroneously cited as a synonym. Pyrus sikkimensis, is an interesting 
species that has long been in the Arboretum, having, probably, as v 
t€ Hooker supposes, been raised from seed sent home by him 
Herbaceous List :—A maie of herbaceous plants cultivated in 
the Royal Gardens, Kew, was issued in June last. The following 
secou of the origin and development of ‘the collection is given in the 
preface 
The object of the present pete as with the rest of the series is, in 
the first place, to show what species are actually grown at Kew, and. in 
the next to reduce, if DN the - nottfenk iiM in use in gardens to 
something like a s stan 
In the earlier Botanic Gardens the — consisted necessarily 
entirely of mM € in the open air. “Indoor cultivation " did not 
commence till a the middle of the seventeenth century, The 
greenhouse and senig in the Chelsea Botanic Gardens were probably 
amongst the earliest erected in this country. 
The cultivation of herbaceous plants in the open air, or with merely 
winter shelter in frames, still remains one o e most important 
features of Botanie Garden work. Of the total number of species 
ami ated at Kew probably vi less than a quarter are grown in this 
he first collection of herbaceous plants at Kew was formed by 
William Aiton, who was engaged by the Dowager Princess of aoe 
to establish a botánic; or as it was then called, a physie garden. 
begun in 1760 and oceupied about an aere of the southern part of de 
: original botanic garden. The site which it edepol is immediately 
south of the Temple of the Sun. It was arranged on the Linnean 
syst According to an enumeration made by Mr. John Smith, the 
first curator of that et in “Hill’s Hortus Kewensis, published in 
1768, the number of the Kew collection of herbaceous plants was 2712,” 
while Aiton, ~ ‘in his Borts Kewensis, published in 1787, enumerates 
2524 species.” 
In 1846 the ae Kitchen Garden, “an extent of 14 acres or 
thereabouts,” that ran parallel to the Richmond Road was abolished. 
Sir William Hooker states in his report for that year “ several useless 
transverse fruit walls have been removed, and the greater portion of this 
area is being prepared for the reception of the entire hardy herbaceous 
. collection ; it is proposed to retain the two long (eastern and western) 
walls for climbing and tender plants; and new walls have been formed or 
caret being formed vish = object. si 
