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SALT BU8HE8. 



Dr. Hilgard, Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station » 

 University of California, was applied to recently for seeds of Salt Bushes' 

 notes on which were given in Bulletin for August 1896, and in his reply 

 occurs the following paragraph : — 



" As you of course understand, the salt bushes require a dry, deep 

 soil and will not do well under ordinary tropical conditions. They 

 resent bottom-water at a less depth t^han four or five feet, and will go 

 ten and twelve where they can. From Mr. Hill's description of your 

 Island, however, I have learned the unexpected fact that you have an 

 arid leeward side, where cacti and yuccas grow, and this, I imagine, 

 will be the best region for the salt bushes ; but I would advise sowing 

 them in boxes and setting out the plants when a few inches high ; they 

 will probably need no waterint^ in your climate, and when once estab- 

 lished, the A. semibaccata especially, will take care of its own propa- 

 gation.'* 



ADDITIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT 



LIBRARY. 



EUROPK. 



British Ules. 



Botanical Magazine, May. [Purchased.] 



British Trade Journal. May. [Purchased,] 



Bulletin Kew Gardens, Apr. 11. [Director.] 



Chemist and Drug^st, Apr. 21, 28. May 5, 12. [Editor.] 



Garden, Apr. 21, 28. May 5, 12. (Purchased.] 



Gardners' Chronicle, Apr. 21, 28, May 5, 12. [Purchased.] 



Hooker's Icones Plantarum, May. [Bentham Trustees. J 



Journal of Botany, May. [Purchased.] 



Journal R. Colonial Institute, May. [Purchased.] 



Nature, Apr. 26, May 3, 10 [Purchased.] 



Pharmaceutical Journal, Apr. 21, 28, May 5, 12. [Editor.] 



Produce World. May. [Editor.] 



Sugar, Apr. [Editor ] 



International Sugar Journal, May. [Editor.] 

 W, Indian and Com. Advertiser, May. [Editor.] 



France. 



Sucererie, indigene et coloniale, Apr. 24, May,!, 8, 15. [Editor.] 

 Germany. 



Notizblatt, Berlin, July, Oct, 1898. [Director.] 

 Beihefte zun Tropenpflanzer, May. [Editor.] 



Italy. 



Palermo, Rol. Ort. Bot., Fasc. I-IV. 1899. [Director.] 

 Switzer/and. 



Memoires de I'Herbier Boissier. Nos. 11, 12, 13. [Conservateur.J 



