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circumstance. In fem, however, the plants, especially those from New Holland, 
are in ace I clean and well attended to; the general appearance of the 
colle s was, moreover, very creditable. 
Jo dd "Sm mith, he was foreman at the time, and who was subsequently 
the first Curator of Kew, as а public establishment, seems to have felt, 
d 
of Cape and New Holland plants must have been incomparable, and 
such as have never been surpassed since. 
He says (Records, p. x.) :— 
“Tt will be seen by the date of the above шы, that the а of the 
nth of of 
Garden took place in the mo February 1838, just after o the severest 
winters on record, and heaps of melting snow “till tye on the pik , and all ever 
green shrubs p ting’ а sorr * e herbaceous ета if it 
resenti wful aspe 
had been examined in summer, and time taken, it would have been 
about 2,500 species of perennial e. arranged according to the jg fins. system." 
ш уи CORRESPONDENCE. 
Àn important paragra the Report relates to the interchange of 
plants with other mis р sia he (Dr. Lindley) says “ that no commu- 
* nication with Colonial gardens is apparent from the Garden Book of 
* Delivery.” Smith shows that this statement was based on a mis- 
apprehension. He proceeds: 
* With regard to Colonial gardens in the east, Mauritius for instance, had received 
all the useful fruits and vegetables from the French West Indies and other countries 
ecame à Britis E Colón; i in 1818 a us of useful cen was жен 
е rom Kew 
фе press К 1806, Кашин ‘boxes of plants were sent by the ship Thames ndia. 
the a large оао of succulents was also pee to 
bu. "Í a sa 
bove is mcm to ай that Kew has not been backward in орын v 
Colonies and Botanic Gardens of Europe with rare per and that 
so bad as Eos ima by Dr. Lindley in his report 
Dr. Lindley reported in 1838, but his report was not presented to 
yieee эе Мау 12, 1840. 
: ook place in the interval Smith gives an account (Records, 
pp. xii., xiii. rw — 
“In the autumn of 1839 the Lord Stewart, га Lord Surrey, who in virtue of 
Ве the 
his office had whole control an t of the Royal paid 
frequent visits to the Garden, picem рый the [е затар of 
the Kitchen ^ y ined the ч ; апа it 
nown that it was his intention to convert 
became kno о them in es and pine-stoves, 
and that the plants had been offered to the Horticultural LE марту garden at 
Chiswick, and also to the Roy Bone оен fee their garden at Regent’s Park; 
but the offer in both ca was dec vinery scheme was, however, 
inte rried out, р on the теч of Жш 1840 the kitchen gardener 
informed me that he had recei Lord Surrey to ta 
of the Botany Bay House, and convert it st as yer into a v t 
the Cape House was to follow, an as to the 
e him t destroy t 
oming known to the cable ре t articles in several public journals 
condemning the scheme as being a disgrace „the tion. This had the desire 
effect, and Lord Surrey’s scheme was abandon 
г oy FREDERICK SCHEER. 
Е зн the occasion of the publication kaso) a of the бан | 
акка di account of Kew ONER by Frederick Scheer under 
