January 7, 1905. 
The Gardening World 
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Views and Reviews 
Journal of the Kew Guild. 
In accordance with the change made re¬ 
cently tile “ Journal of the Kew Guild ” now 
makes its appearance about Christmas, in¬ 
stead of in the spring, when too much has 
to be done in the garden to give it the proper 
attention. The frontispiece for 1901 is a 
portrait of Nicholas Edward Brown, with 
whose initials—N. E. Br.—many Kewites 
are familiar in connection with descriptions 
of new plants. Mr. Brown has been as¬ 
sistant in the Kew Herbarium since 
February, 1873, and in 1871 he commenced 
giving lectures to the young gardeners on 
geographical botany, so that this connection 
with the young men, lasting over thirty 
years, has made him familiar to about quite 
two-tliirds of the members of the Guild. No 
apology, therefore, is necessary for 1 lie ap¬ 
pearance of his portrait in the annual 
number of the journal. 
His duties are essentially in the Herb¬ 
arium, where one may always find him hard 
at work at bis accustomed post. It is here 
stated that Mr. Brown is content to work 
for the cause rather than for his own gain 
or advancement. He is thus in perfect ac¬ 
cord with the tradition that has animated 
past members of the Kew staff ; they work 
self-sacrificingly for their Alma Mater 
rather than for themselves, as has been 
graciously stated by the director himself in 
the first number of the journal. The Cacti, 
Aroids, and Asclepiads may be described as 
the speciality of Mr. Brown’s work, though 
his attention is by no means confined to 
those orders. Nevertheless, he has done 
much good work in connection with the same. 
In connection with an illustration of the 
Herbarium, showing the recently finished 
wing, a very interesting account is given. 
The oldest portion, known as the King of 
Hanover’s House, was practically the original 
nucleus of the Herbarium when it still held 
only the private collection of the late Sir 
William Hooker, there being no herbarium 
when he took charge of the gardens in 1811. 
Sir William’s library and herbarium were 
transferred to this building in 1853, but they 
did not become national property until after 
his death in 1865. In 1853, however, Miss 
Bromfield presented the herbarium of her 
brother, W. Arnold Bromfield, M.D., to the 
nation. This latter was therefore the nu¬ 
cleus of the present Herbarium, although 
the collection was greatly extended when 
Sir William Hooker’s collection was made 
over to the nation. In 1851, the late Mr. G. 
Bentham, who collaborated with Sir 
Joseph Dalton Hooker in producing the 
" Genera Plantarum,” added his library and 
herbarium, which were located in the King 
of Hanover’s House ; but this now only con¬ 
tains the library or the greater portion of it. 
In 1876-77 the drawing-room of this build¬ 
ing was pulled down and a wing added be¬ 
hind it, extending towards the Thames. 
This is 86 ft. by 43 ft. with two galleries 
besides the ground floor. Recently this 
became over-crowded and specimen cases 
were piled up all over the floor until it 
became absolutely necessary to again extend 
the Herbarium. The new wing is as large 
as the older with the addition of a connect¬ 
ing corridor, and even this now seems quite 
full. It may give some idea of the extent 
of the Herbarium if we say that it contains 
about 1,500,000 specimens stored away in 
upwards of 500 double cabinets. 
The Herbarium contains a very large 
number of the type specimens from which 
Bentham, Oliver, Baker, and other members 
of the staff, as well as botanists not attached 
to the Herbarium, have made their descrip¬ 
tions. The question frequently arises, who 
should lead in the attempt to unify or sys¬ 
tematise correct nomenclature / Seeing that 
so many of the type specimens are here it 
certainly offers good argument for the Kew 
Herbarium being the headquarters to which 
all present and future workers should look 
for the correct name. 
A varied amount of information is given 
in the journal concerning Kew, Kewites, and 
the annual transactions of the various socie¬ 
ties and meetings organised by the present 
Kewites. A large portion of the journal is 
taken up with notes and letters from past 
Kewites in various parts of the world, and 
apart from the list of old Kewites this will 
form the most interesting part of the jour¬ 
nal. Mr. F. J. Cole, for some time on the 
editorial staff of The Gardening World, 
writes front the Garden City, Hitchin, where 
he is now superintendent of the various 
parks, gardens, and commons, under the 
control of the First Garden. City, Limited. 
He mentions a common of 77 acres which lie 
speaks of as a wild garden where he hopes to 
have such a collection of British plants as 
lias never before been seen in a wild state. 
We presume he intends collecting wild 
