20 MARCH 1920, Page 19

The Bulletin for 1919 of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,

contains, amongst much interesting matter, an illustrated account of the new flagstaff which was erected on October 18th last. This remarkable present from British, Columbia is a Douglas fir, 214 feet high. It stands on the site of the Temple of Victory erected in memory of the battle of Minden. We may mention also an article on the possibilities of forestry and tussock grass in the Falklands, and an article on the Jerusalem artichoke, in which the familiar derivation of the name from a corruption of the Italian girasole is questioned on the ground that we called the vegetable by its present name in 1622 long before the Italians called it girasole.