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SALE OF PLANTS AND TREES.

The work in this section continues to increase. The total number of plants and trees sold was nearly three times as many as during last year, the number was 3,317 and they realised $412,21. About half of the number sold were forest trees and the other half ornamental plants.

There is a con- siderable regular demand for maiden-hair ferns, the demand so far as quantity goes is well met now, but the quality is not quite so good sometimes as I could wish it to be. For the desired improvement, however, extended and improved appliances for cultivation are required which I hope will be partly met this year by provisional arrangements.

HERBARIUM.

In my last year's report

I had occasion to lament the want of more suitable accommodation. for keeping the collection of dried plants. I have now however the great satisfaction of expressing my appreciation of the better provision which has been made for keeping the plants and carrying on the works of the herbarium, which has made much greater progress than in any one previous year.

Amongst other work 1,192 specimens were mounted, labelled and incorporated. I anticipate that during the present year the remainder of the specimens which have been accumulating for some years will be satisfactorily disposed of and that then the work will be brought up to date.

The Rev. ERNST FABER has generously continued his kind donations of specimens collected by himself in Szchuen and in the neighbourhoods of Ningpo and Shanghai.

A collection of specimens of other Chinese plants has also been kindly presented by Mr. THISELTON T. DYER, Director of Kew Gardens.

To the Royal Gardens, Kew, we are also indebted as usual for valuable aid in information supplied on botanical subjects which could only be obtained from such a well equipped institution.

LIBRARY.

We are indebted to the Indian Forest Department and various Botanical Gardens, as named below for Annual Reports which have been received. The following is the complete list of additions by presentation and purchase during the year:---

Botanical Magazine, 1888. Purchased. Catalogue des plants de Ichi Fou, Frauchet. do. Catalogue of plants, in the Agri: Hortic. So-

ciety's Gardens, Madras.

Comparative Anatomy of the Vegetable Organs of the Phanerogams and ferns. Purchased A. DE BARY.

Eunumerations plantarum quas in China boreali

Collegit Bunge. Purchased.

Eumeratio, Plantarum Zeylaniæ, Thwaites, Pur-

chased.

Flore Forestiere de la Cochin-Chine, Fasciles 8 to

11. Presented by Mrs. HANCE. Gardener's Chronicle, 1888. Purchased. Hooker's Icones Plantarum Parts I-IV Vol. VIII.

Presented by the Bentham. Trustees. Index Florae Sinensis, Part V. Presented by

the Royal Gardens, Kew.

Journal of Botany, 1888. Purchased. Journal of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic

Society No. 5 Vol. XIII. 1887. Purchased. Notes, on Forest Management in Germany,

Brandis.

Origine des plants Cultivees 1 vol. A. de Can- .

dolle, Purchased.

Outline of Classification and Special Morphology

of Plants-Goebel. Purchased.

Report, Adaptation of Russian and other fruits

to the United States.

Report, Agri: Horticultural Society, Madras 1887.

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Botanic Gardens, and Plantations-Ade-

laide, South Australia, 1887. Report, Botanic Gardens, Trinidad, 1887.

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British Guiana, 1886

and 1887.

Report, Course of Instruction at the Forest

School, Dehra Dun in 1887-88.

Report, Forests Straits Settlements, 1887.

Fruit Resources of British Guiana. Government Botanical Gardens, Saha-

ranpur, 1888.

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Report, Royal Botanic Gardens, Ceylon, 1887.

Condition of Tropical and Semi-Tropical

Fruits in the U. S. in 1887. Report,Queensland Acclimatisation Society, 1887. Sorghum, its Culture and uses by Dr. PETER

COLLIER.

Indian Forest Reports.

Forest Administration in Ajmere-Merwara, 1886

1887.

Forest Administration in British India, 1886-87.

in Andamans, 1886-87. in North-West Provinces,

1886-87.

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Forest Administration in Punjab, 1886-87.

Survey Branch, 1886-87.

Review of Forest Administration in British India,

1886-87.