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The beech trees are really decaying, however, and 
slowly but surely classified plantings are occupying 
the ground. They can never be properly in se- 
quence, they can never be as grand in aspect as the 
old woods, which matured in freedom from the Lon- 
don gas and smoke, but imperfect though they may 
be, as a whole they are by far the richest in the 
world, and nothing short of a trained prescience can 
hope to approach and excel them. Perhaps as many 
as one-fifth of the flowering plants of the world are 
in cultivation at Kew. But although so much has 
been done in the effort towards classification, it does 
not greatly impress the visitor; interfering growths 
obtrude themselves on every hand, the mind of the 
tyro is confused and even discouraged, and he is 
apt to declare that botany as a system is a confus- 
ion that he at any rate can never hope to surmount 
by the aid of any existing garden. The herbarium 
and museums alone have proved manageable in their 
sequential arrangement at Kew. The Genera Plan- 
tarum of Bentham and Hooker is the accepted au- 
thority, and it is greatly to be hoped that all future 
arrangements and nomenclature will be brought in- 
to harmony the world over — as much for economy’s 
sake as for intelligent understanding. In this coun- 
try we have a real advantage in starting so late, for 
we benefit at once if we will by the great systematic 
labors of Jussieu, De Candolle, and Bentham and 
Hooker. Perhaps in one or two respects the system 
of groups adopted by De Candolle were more a- 
greable to place on the ground and retain in the 
mind than those of the later compilation; this is 
more especially true in the Monochlamydece, one of 
the groups of which is unwieldy, and on broken 
ground often necessitates tribal grouping, and the 
same may be said of the Polypetalous Rosales. As 
a rule, however, the only possible garden group at 
once comprehensive and capable of harmonious dis- 
position is the cohort or alliance of orders. Ot 
these there are forty-two which are adaptable to 
garden purposes, arranged as follows: 
BENTHAM k HOOKER’S GROUPS OF THE 
GENERA PLANTARUM. 
DICOTYLEDONOUS POLYPETALOUS EXOGENS. 
1 Ranales, 
2 Parietales, 
3 Polygalales, 
4 Caryophylales, 
5 Guttiferales, 
6 Malvales. 
7 Geraniales, 
8 Olacales, 
9 Celastrales, 
lo Sapindales, 
lo^? Anomale. 
7 ThalamiJIorie. 
y Discijlorce. 
I 
J 
1 1 
Rosales, 
I 2 
Myrtnles, 
13 
Fassifiorales, 
;> Calyciflone . 
H 
Ficoidales, 
1 .3 
Umbellales. 
MONOPETALOUS 
EXOGENS. 
i6 
Rubiales, 
) 
17 
Asterales, 
Inf era'. 
i8 
Campanales. 
s 
19 
Ericales, 
20 
Primulales, Heteromenr. 
21 
Ebenales. i 
22 
Gentianales, 
23 
Polemoniales, 
24 
Personales, 
> BicarpellaiLV . 
25 
Lamiales, 
2 ^a 
Anomale. 
APETALOUS EXOGENS. 
26 
Chenopodiales. — Cnrvembryca'. 
27 
Podostemales. — Mnltiovulatw aq. 
28 
Asarales. — 
Multiovnlata: ter 
29 
P i p e r al es . — M icrem bryece. 
30 
Daphnales. 
31 
Santalales. — Achlamydosporece 
32 
Ouernales. — 
Unisexnalc. 
'y 'y 
JO 
Salicales. — Anomale. 
GYMNOSPERMOUS 
EXOGENS. 
34 
Coniferales, 
34 « 
Abietinae, 
34/^ 
Cupressinae, 
34 ^- 
Taxinai. 
MONOCOTYTEDONOUS ENDOGENS. 
35 
Orchidales. - — 
Microspermce. 
36 
Narcissales. — 
Epigynee. 
37 
Liliales. — 
Coronarice. 
CO 
Palmales. — 
Calycince. 
39 
A rales. — 
Nudiflorte. 
40 
Potomales. — 
-Apocarpee. 
41 
Glumales. 
ACOTYLEDONOUS 
ACROGENS. 
42 
h'ilicales. 
James Mae Flier son. 
Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary 
humanity; children love them; quiet, tender, con- 
tented ordinary people love them as they grow; lux- 
urious and disorderly people rejoice in them gather- 
ed. They are the cottager’s treasure; and in the 
crowded town, mark, as with a little broken frag- 
ment of rainbow, the windows of the workers in 
whose heart rests the covenant, of peace.— 
Ruskin. 
