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title of “ Kew and its Gardens.” Scheer was ап independent botanist who 
had particularly devoted himself to the study of Cactacee. He deseribed 
the plants of that family collected by Seemann for the * Botany of the 
Voyage of the Herald," published by that botanist (1852—57). Sir 
William Hooker (185 8) ыр eee mexicana (Bot. Мае. t. 4743) 
named by Seemann in his hono 
“To whom our gardens are С for the introduction of several other 
ornamental plants, s to whose successful study of Cactaceæ science owes many 
interesting addition 
Scheer ——á himself as a rest by which, no doubt, he intends 
that he resided at Kew. Не certainly knew the affairs at the time and 
— Wem His pages have been borrowed from freely in this 
account, and as far as his statements admit of being tested they prove 
extremely accurate. 
is introduction he says :— 
“ The a еле a been lately roused from чет even tenor of its way by 
ominous rumo ing destruction to ws Royal Botanie Gardens at Kew 
There is no do abt nore in te t had been given to m Horticultural Society, add 
perhaps to yon of the existence of a desire to dispose a the de s, colleeted in 
the nearly a century,in these Gard t has b aid that the 
expense sicco incurred was too heavy to be: uem mip caer "y the British 
nation. 
* The Council of the Hortieultural Society, with a spirit o m att tee » 
вены and to wm declined becoming a party to a proe 
eir pursuits, and. we trust that no corporate body could be ride: in sd v United 
ies 3. capable of deviating from the dignified course of which these gentlemen 
have set the example.’ 
Discussion тм House or Lomps. 
A brief discussion which took place in the House of Lords, March 3, 
1840, “ tranquillized the public mind on the matter.” 
HovsE or Lorps, March 3, 1840. 
Kew Borantc Garpens.—The Earl of Aberdeen 4 . .alluded to the 
Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. He had heard many n epor respect to the 
intention of the Government to abandon and destroy that fine ыыы Не 
should have given little ог no credit to those reports, if he had not been informed 
that an offer had been made to icu 
them ee — in the Gardens on certain conditions. Z^ ned was very well 
to tro could 
favour a better object than the protection, eucouragement, and cultivation of that 
delightful science with which those Y were connected. He now ; 
noble Viscount, who was at the head of the Department of Woods and Forests, 
— а such або as that to which he had — at present existed 
Visi Duncannon said, сы. the Botanic Gardens о f Kew were not under the 
eontrol of his But he could assure the noble Earl that there was not 
only not d — we cree nowto break up these Gardens, but there never had been 
any suc ndeed, it would have sees next to impossible ; =ч а great 
чен of Prien an eould not be removed without ensuring their destructio 
Scheer (р. 56) explains the mode in which the Gardens were main- 
