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Early in the study of the a it was d that the nature of the 
soil has a very marked influence on the success of the different stocks. 
The subject has now been quite “fally i inv Ж in France, and the 
latest researches are formulated by the experimental school at Mont- 
pellier in the statement quoted ‘below, which will be of interest as 
giving the various classes of soils, together with the American vines 
best adapted to e 
(1.) New. SEGA fertile soils: Riparia (tomentous and glabrous), 
Jacquez, Solonis, Viala, T'aylor, and Cunningham. 
(2.) Deep soils, somewhat strong, not wet : Jaequez, Riparia, Solonis, 
Cunningham, Viala, Taylor. 
(3.) Deep soils of medium consistency, new and not P in summer : 
Riparia, Jaequez, Solonis, Viala, Taylor, к July 
(4.) Light pebbly soils, deep, vel drained, and “not 100 dry in 
summer: Jacquez, Riparia (wild), Taylor, Парня 
(5.) Са leareous soils, with subsoil shallow or ааш: Solonis, 
(6.) Argillaceous soils, white or grey: Е 
(7.) Argillaceous soils, deep and ver y wet: V. cin 
(8.) Deep, sandy, fertile soils : Даран ta (wild), Solonis, Jacquez, 
Cunningham, Black July, Rupestris 
(9.) Light vend soils, dry and barren : Rupestris, York, Madeira, 
Riparia (wil d). 
10.) Deep soils, with a tufa base and salt lands: Solonis. 
(12.) Ferruginous soils, containing red pebbles of silica, deep and 
somewhat strong, well drained, but fresh in sammer. All the varieties 
indicated, and in addition : Herbemont, Clinton, Cynthiana, Marion, 
Concord, Herman 
CXC.—BOTANICAL STATION AT LAGOS. 
Particulars respecting the establishment and progress of this the 
first Botanical Station on the West Coast of Africa have already been 
given in the Kew Bulletin (June 1888, p. 149; March 1889, p. 69; 
and July 1890, p. 162). 
The ани correspondence gives the most recent accounts of Из 
progres: 
The p pros ospects of Ааай cultivation at this station are discussed in 
the Kew Bulletin for July 
At the conclusion of a year the late Curator, Mr. James McNair, 
aay E appointment for the purpose of returning to the West 
as been succeeded by Mr. Henry Millen, of the Royal 
бы, Kew 
The e Colony i is under gat obligations to Mr. McNair for the faithful 
way in which he has carried out the work entrusted to him o 
organising and stocking the new station, which has now, it is hoped, 
passed into b.e stage of a permanently useful institution. 
