Margaret Meen's " Exotic Plants from the Royal Gardens, Kew.' 

 During many years it has been sought l<» add to the Kew Libran 

 copy of this book, not so much on account of its scientific value as t 

 fact of its being a record of plants that flowered at Kew towards t 

 end of the last century. It is only within the last i'f\v weeks, howev' 

 that the work has been secured. It is a large [olio, dedicated to Que 

 Charlotte. Like many other ambitious projects it soon collapsed. T 

 intention "was to publish two numbers annually, each containing lb 

 plates; Mild the price was sixteen -hillings each for the coloured a 

 twelve tor the uncoloured. Tie' first part is dated 17!>0. and omtai 



ttering, and are probably by a different artist. J. vara coct 

 randiflora, Lobelia surinamvusis and Fuchsia coccbica (t 

 lants represented. So far as our researches go these two m 

 1 that was published, if indeed the second was really pul 

 ritzel records only one, and he gives the dimensions as I'd le 

 hereas the copy at Kew is 24* by 19 inches. Bound wit 

 >ing in a cardboard cover, is a fine coloured plate of . 

 ultiflorus, " from Sierra Leone, recovered to Europe 



V. P. 



Nodder, B. 



.tsinic Painter to 



Her Maje^t; 



r,and 



publisliod bvhini. 





= f. 179.V' 



Nodder was th 





publis 









volumes, entitle 



■d '• Flora IJ 





" which appeared 





i 1792 and 



1795. It conti 



.ins 111 pla 





id the descriptive 



tterpr 





tten by Thomas 



Martyn, the 



ti Professor of Botany 





bridge. 











l Asia Minor.— \ 



T till pa en, 



Botanic 



from Mr. Philip MarM;il tie < ; • r.-d the'Js,!, 



March 1«9.'J:— You will regret to learn that these gardens ,vere 

 partially destroyed by two floods which followed each other at an 

 interval of a fortnight on the .1th and 19th ult. A huge new residence 

 recently built for me was utterly destroyed, and all my books, &c, 

 completely swept away. The gardens over a large portion of their area 

 were covered by a deposit of mud and sand, in some cases two feet deep, 

 and many thousands of shrubs were destroyed ; many trees have sustained, 

 I fear, permanent injury. All seeds and specimens as well as all my office 



