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CAMBRIDGE.—The Botanic Garden Syndicate, unlike some others at Cambridge, have been able to erect their new plant-houses within one pound of the estimate, £3000. The work has been satisfactorily done by Messrs. Boyd, of Paisley. Solid foundations have been laid, so that when required new wood-work may be built on the same walls. The new houses include a warm orchid-house, warm fern-house, stove, palm-house, aquarium, and stove-pit. A laboratory, for investigations required to be conducted near the plant-houses, has been built; it contains two large working-rooms and a dark chamber. The collections removed to the new houses are now in capital condition. The hardy cactuses, probably unsurpassed, have been removed to the border in front of the new stove. A new bed has been made for the choicer hardy Ericaceæ. Great progress has been made in naming and labelling. Among plants of scientific interest that have flowered in the gardens is Pilocarpus pennatifolius, which yields pilocarpine, Erythroxylon Coca, Narcissus Broussoneti (the corona a mere rim), and many others. Among; the most interesting plants received have been Gerbera Jamesoni, a fine Composite from the Cape, Isonandra Gutta (yielding guttapercha), Washingtonia robust a, a choice new palm, Stachys tuberifera, a new vegetable (the crosnes of the Paris markets), and numerous hardy bamboos.
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University and Educational Intelligence . Nature 39, 429 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039429a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/039429a0