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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 6

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Number of visitors 5
Early opening on bank holidays 5
Lessons to young gardeners 5
Botanic Gardens:
Palm House 6
Collection of Bromeliaceæ 6
Tropical Fern House 6
Mr. Peacock's collection of succulents 6
Specimen trees 6
New and interesting plants flowered for first time 7
Arboretum 8
Riverside plantation 8
Quercetum 8
Collections of Rosaceæ, &c. 8
Interchange of plants and seeds:
Cinchona 9
Ceylon 9
Introduction of Columbian bark into India 10
Jamaica 11
Cork-oaks for the Punjab 11
Fodder plants:
Prangos pabularia 12
Prickly comfrey 12
Téosinté 13
India-rubber:
Hevea and Castilloa 14
Ceara rubber 15
Liberian coffee 15
Mahogany seeds for India 17
Mesquit beans 17
Pithecolobium Saman 17
Wagatea spicata 19
Statement of number of plants sent out Principal contributors of seeds and plants:
Britain 19
Continent 21
Asia 21
Africa 22
New World 22
Australia and New Zealand 23
Supply of specimens for Science and Art Department, &c. 23
Indian and Colonial Botanic Gardens: 24
Bengal Cinchona plantation 24
Demerara 25
Jamaica 25
Singapore 25
Official correspondence 26
African oil palm for, Labuan 26
Anisoplia austriaca at Taganrog 26
Arrow-poison of New Hebrides 27
Ascension 27
Black Grub 27
Beetle attacking vines 29
Bahamas:
Tomatos 29
Onions 29
Tobacco 29
Bamia cotton 29
Chinese coffin-woods 30
Cinchona disease in Jamaica 31
Cinchona febrifuge 31
Cocoa-nut beetle in Zanzibar 32
Coffee-disease in Ceylon: 32
Investigations of Rev. R. Abbay 32
Investigations of Mr. Morris 33
Proposed remedies 34
Cyprus 34
Dragon's blood of Africa 35
Eaglewood 36
Eucalyptus 36
Frankincense 37
Gutta-shea 38
India-rubber:
Ficus elastica 38
Fijian india-rubber 39
Hevea in British Guiana 39
Liberian rubber 39
Malayan and African rubbers 39
Madagascar Baobab 40page 4
Myrrh 40
Orange-fly of Queensland 41
Pai-ch'ha as a substitute for boxwood 41
Paper materials:
Bamboo 42
Baobab 44
Californian "cactus" 44
Eriophorum comosum 45
Molinia cœrulea 45
Trinidad Spear-grass 45
Typha latifolia 45
Perak 45
Rain-tree 46
South African bamboo 47
Sugar-cane disease 48
Vegetable ivory substitutes:
Hyphæne kernels 49
Raphia seeds 49
Sagus seeds 50
Museums:
Need of extension 50
Principal contributors 50
Physiological laboratory 52
Herbarium:
Rev. M. J. Berkeley's cryptogamic herbarium 52
N. J. Dalzell's Indian herbarium 52
Other principal contributions 53
Botanical publications 55
Appendix I., number of visitors in 1878 56
Appendix II., list of Bromeliaceæ cultivated in the Royal Gardens 57

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