Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Temas73-84H.M. Stationery Office, 1893 Issue for Jan. 1897 contains List of Kew publications, 1841-1895; Appendix 5, 1907, contains List of Kew publications, 1896-1906. |
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Página 118 - WE have the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith a copy of a letter...
Página 47 - WE have been glancing through a new list of the staffs of the Royal Gardens, Kew, and of botanical departments and establishments at home, and in India and the Colonies, in correspondence with Kew.
Página 27 - are indispensable to the maintenance of a correct nomenclature, especially in the smaller botanical establishments in correspondence with Kew, which are, as a rule, only scantily provided with horticultural periodicals. Such a list will also afford information respecting new plants under cultivation at this establishment, many of which will be distributed from it in the regular course of exchange with other botanic gardens.
Página 101 - ... of quinine. This gradually becomes thicker, until, after a period of from ninety to a hundred days, the wax, in good years, has attained a thickness of about a quarter of an inch. When the wax is ready the branches are lopped off, and as much of the wax as possible is removed by hand. This is placed in an iron pot with water, and the wax, rising to the surface at melting point, is skimmed off and placed in round moulds, whence it emerges as the white wax of commerce. The wax which cannot be removed...
Página 176 - I HAVE the honour to inclose a copy of a letter which 1 have received from M.
Página 135 - Soon after the discovery of the Canaries this name was transferred to Convolvulus scoparius, and afterwards to several American plants. It is called in the Islands Lena Noel, a corruption of Lignum aloes, and though now in little request, large quantities of it were formerly exported and the plant nearly extirpated.
Página 123 - The Governor and the Council, the Military, the Judges, the Clergy, and one half the Civil Servants penetrated the hills, and became purchasers of crown lands. The East India Company's officers crowded to Ceylon to invest their savings, and capitalists from England arrived by every packet.
Página 226 - is by far the most abundant tree throughout Syria, covering the rock hills, of Palestine especially, with a dense brushwood of trees 8-12 feet high, branching from the base, thickly covered with small evergreen rigid leaves, and bearing acorns copiously. On Mount Carmel it forms nine-tenths of the shrubby vegetation, and it is almost equally abundant on the west flanks of the Anti-Lebanon and many slopes and valleys of Lebanon.
Página 312 - The last hundred yards was over the glassy surface of the ice in which we cut steps as we advanced. The available standing room on the pass would scarcely suffice for ten men, and the descent on the Tibetan side is startling in its steepness. Its surface was covered with a shoot of stones. This pass is not practicable for the passage of yaks, and is seldom used by foot travellers. On the north a high naked hill projected eastwards, appearing as a huge pile of stony debris ; on the south a large glacier...
Página 17 - Zanzibar, and grown wherever the soil is suitable, from the large and extensive plantations belonging to the Sultan and his family to the few trees owned by the more humble cultivator. The soil of Zanzibar, with the exception, however, of that of Pemba, which excels it in this respect, is certainly eminently adapted for this cultivation. The soil most suitable for clove cultivation is "a dark loam, having underneath a layer of dusky yellow earth, intermixed with gravel;" also "a yellowish or reddish...