June 19, 1897. 
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SATURDAY, JUNE igth, 1897. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, June 21st.—Imperial Fete and Fancy Fair at the 
Royal Botanic Society's Gardens, Regent’s Park (6 days'. 
Wednesday, June 23rd.—Victorian Era Flower Show at the 
Crystal Palace (2 days). 
National Rose Society’s Show at Portsmouth. 
Richmond Show. 
Royal Agricultural Society’s Show at Manchester (5 
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Sale of Orchids by Messrs. Protheroe and Morris. 
Saturday, June 26th.—Dorking Rose Show. 
Windsor Rose Show. 
Whe Journal of the Kew Guild.— This 
hardy annual, the fifth of the series, 
opens with a portrait of Mr. John Gilbert 
Baker, F.R.S., F.L.S., keeper of the Her¬ 
barium and Library, Royal Gardens, Kew. 
Old Kewites will recognise the features of 
Mr. Baker at a glance, few in the establish¬ 
ment being more familiar to the students 
or young gardeners by reason of his deliver¬ 
ing a course of lectures on systematic botany 
annually, and being frequently in the 
gardens examining, studying and naming 
living specimens of plants from all parts of 
the world. Mr. Baker commenced collect¬ 
ing and drying British plants when he was 
only twelve years old, and in time became 
one of the best of amateur British botanists. 
Since he joined the establishment at Kew 
thirty years ago the amount of botanical 
work which he has gone through is simply 
marvellous. Garden botany is one phase 
of his work for which gardeners have to be 
thankful. We need only mention Ferns, 
Irids, Amaryllids, and Bromeliads as an in¬ 
stance of this, leaving out oT count his 
numerous and valuable monographs of 
garden genera. His source of popularity 
amongst the students, fogged and labouring 
amongst the labyrinthic intricacies of plant 
life, was his lucidity and the emphatic way 
in which he defined the absolute differences 
between one so-called species and another; 
between orders, families, genera, races &c. 
We grasped this idea of Mr. Baker’s style 
after hearing a lecture or two, and have no 
doubt the same experience served to nerve 
many another contemporary student in 
grappling with the intricate science of 
botany. 
We note from the Journal that there were 
1,396,875 visitors to Kew Gardens during 
the past year ; that 86,399 entered the 
gardens in one day—May 25 ; and that the 
smallest number in any one day was 62 on 
March 18. This should be news to those 
writers who advance theories in the news¬ 
papers that the gardens are practically 
unknown. Let us hope they were led into 
error by entering the gardens on the March 
18th, 1896, above quoted. One lady 
gardener has been appointed head gardener 
from Kew, to a private establishment in 
Wales. This was Miss A. M. Gulvin who 
gained the Gold Medal of the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society against all comers from the 
British Isles, in 1895. At present there are 
three lady gardeners at Kew. The latest 
poetical sketch by Mr. Ingram, an old 
Kewite, entitled “ The Lady Gardener,” 
is amusing, and the imaginary professor, 
pitted against the equally imaginary antics 
of the ladies, ought now to exhibit his 
gallantry by taking a back seat. 
Newsy paragraphs, from various distant 
correspondents, are again a feature of the 
publication and are doubly welcome to all 
by whom they were known. A pithy note 
on this same subject by Mr. F. W. Bur- 
bidge, M.A., F.L.S., Trinty College 
Gardens, Dublin, expresses, we feel sure, 
the sentiments of not a few. Mr. R. Derry 
says “ We are located on a mountain eight 
miles from Taiping, at an elevation of 3,600 
feet. The temperature is simply delightful, 
and we can live comfortably without sweat¬ 
ing.” This, too, is at Perak, in the Malay 
Peninsula. After relating the varied nature 
of the work he has to accomplish for the 
Government, he speaks of a Pepper-garden 
he has to manage. Well, that at least 
ought to be warm ; but when he says “ This 
locality would suit Jack; we have tigers, 
elephants, rhinoceros, snakes, &c., galore,” 
we fancy that must be warmer still—in fact 
too warm for us. Mr. O. E. Wiig writes 
from Norway in a somewhat different vein 
“ a beautiful place in summer, but cold and 
dismal in winter, when one sees nothing 
but miles and miles of Pines and Birches 
laden with snow. The London fog cannot 
be much worse than this. Still we have a 
fair amount of success in gardening, our air 
being clear and the light good, whilst hard 
work is not so fatiguing as I found it at 
Kew, for instance.” From such brief 
sketches an enterprising writer might fabri¬ 
cate a modern view of purgatory ; but the 
old Kewites are not a bit discouraged ; oh, 
no; they have not yet had enough of the 
brimful and changeful amenities of their 
new and hopeful situations. Already “there 
are no less than eighteen Kewites now oc¬ 
cupying important positions in various parts 
of the African Continent, and this number 
bids fair to be doubled in a short time when 
the political atmosphere clears andBritishers 
settle down to work.” Some short sketches 
of Cape gardens from the pen of Mr. W. J. 
Mathews, make very interesting reading ; 
but we need not anticipate the Journal’s 
arrival in distant quarters by quoting any 
of the sketches; suffice to say that the 
smaller gardens would appear to be the 
more interesting, because the larger ones 
are mostly copies of European originals, as 
is usually the case. We cannot blame the 
pioneers even if they do take models with 
them from the old country ; it always was 
Nature’s plan of evolution to convert or 
transform an oid thing into a new or at 
least a different shape. Old favourites are 
also taken with the pioneers into their 
adopted homes ; but sparrows in America, 
rabbits in Australia, and Opuntias and 
Argemone mexicana in Africa should act as 
monitors warning Britishers not to take 
pets with them unless guaranteed to be of 
good behaviour in the new country. 
Under the heading of“ Distinguished Past 
Kewites,” the short sketches of past men 
who have made their mark in the history of 
the establishment, are continued. Some 
half a dozen of such men are reviewed. “ A 
Present Kewite on Kew” supplies an article 
that is at once instructive and most amus¬ 
ing. We cannot imagine in what happy 
hunting ground he gained his experience in 
the matter of lodgings ; but we quite admit 
that our fifteen years’ habitation in Kew is 
not a wide experience, though fairly long. 
He says “ I was robbed right and left, my 
food was often garbage, my bed too “ lively” 
for words except very strong language. . 
.And my landlady’s retort 
when I complained of the food was, that if 
