23 JULY 1859, Page 12

How the botanical treasures at Kew serve our commercial needs

occa- sionally, receivesjust now an apt illustration in the fine specimen of that most wonderful of all vegetable productions the lace or lattice leaf plant of Madagascar, which is to be seen in hothouse No. 6, in Kew Gardens. Many millions of leaves have been made and mounted into wreaths, gar- lands, chaplets, and coronals in Clerkenwell alone by the artificial florists who have adopted it as a pattern ; and it is now being largely exported to all our Colonies by the manufacturers, who have named it the skeleton leaf.