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planted. A tank for water-plants was made at one end of the nknt aT u 6 ™ 
very attractive. The old wooden tables which used to carrv ™ a 'ru w has beel1 
were removed and replaced bv nermanem I.,-; i , > smaller plants in pots 
much to the ornamental appearance of the house F cement stmetures which add 
cement tables were made in the Nurserv with brick .Til acld , ltlonal io "g «>r a ) and 
Thicks or battens which will form a large addition ? 0 Tpt eraq^ed L'poZ 
cleanld e at b inter b vl der 4 bout a' hundred" "T aSrec i uired ’ and manured and 
towards the lake was femetaUed >*** ° f ™ ad runnln S d °""' ‘he main hill 
Plants in flower. 
the liTs^tim^intlfe'^rdenT"^ 1 ’" interesti ”S of the plants which flowered for 
(Malay Peninsula), //ex &St Africa), Wallickiana 
grandiflora (South America) Ixora barh/rtr\\ i y C '^ /ll ^ s P ecia / Ji Gs (Cuba), Solandra 
Gymnostachyum Ceylanicum (Ceylon) Bignoniav 'sd ' fJ? 0lua * nc * r >Mta (Guiana), 
Cleistanthus far.ifolius (Pahang), Tritm^ZV^ ** C °'° Ur 
refractum D. Foxii n. sp. (Perak), 
(Penang), Amomfim n sn aJ r th !t s r Lwfit ; ni (Africa), Arisoema Roxburgh} i 
Plants received and distributed. 
an'd t^ubers^eside^Pie^nuonthl'v suDDlies^n^ \ 37 ??*«* £* ^ of seeds ' 600 plants 
the seeds of importance ,ron \ Me ,^ rs - Carter &Co. Among 
carpus from Dr. Prain of Calcutta” t™, ‘ ° ga "r a ' ,d p , bs ' ot Pterocarpus Macro- 
Hereenhausen and Prof Cornu M | a " ^ ^ : ds Iron; Herr VVendland of 
valuable from an economic ooint of *1 ° • hr 1 e 'v plant introductions the most 
then, being a new Coffee and a neu f r ^ the Ro >' al Garde » s Kew; amongst 
Klaiimi, some interesting palms and a Landol P hia 
Messrs.^E^Rv'A.^REER^f'philaddplda 1 I f"? ^7 ° f *’*&*» from 
and made our lily ponds a freely, 
ihe contributors were as follows : ^ , ' v 
I he Royal Gardens, Kew. 
botanical Gardens, Buitenzorg. 
n Melbourne. 
Trinidad. 
Berlin. 
Queensland. 
Ootacamund. 
Ceylon. 
Calcutta. 
Old Calabar. 
Sydney. 
” British Guiana. 
Conservator of Forests, Dehra Dun. 
H. A. Dreer, Philadelphk^ 0 ^ 
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Messrs. Herb & YVulle. 
Messrs. Dammann. 
T . W . Brown, Esquire. 
J. S. Goode nough, Esquire. 
M. Cornu. 
M. Vernet. 
Messrs. Williams Bros. 
bt.V. B, Down, Esquire. 
E. Iv. Salisbury, Esquire, 
j. Pereira. 
W. D, Barnes, Esquire. 
H- Wendland, Esquire. 
W. Meikle, Esquire. 
Dr. Braddon. 
C. Curtis, Esquire. 
There were 399 plants and 134 packages of seeds c ^ n , , , 
and contributors besides those sent to planters an 1 'nth * * vanous S arde »s 
States. Five Wardian Cases of fruit re es and ccnnn " '"Z* Col ° n >’ aI,d Nalivc 
trees and economic plants were sent to His 
