Mr. Maries says in the Garden: " I continued on down the other side of the mountain into the valley to a large dilapidated temple, and with great difficulty obtained permission to live in it. The priests were a sect called Tauists. What a sight was here in the temple yard, surrounded with large trees of Larix Kaempferi, and in front two of the largest Cryptomerias I have ever seen, one measuring 9 ft. in diameter, and the other over 8 ft. and quite 200 ft. high. Just below were growing lots of fine trees of Magnolia conspicua in full flower, and the Liriodendron tulipiferum, hitherto only known from North America. It was in flower, and I gathered dried specimens to send to England. I consider it to be a different species from the American, though very near it. It is not so large as the American tree. The ones I saw were probably 70 ft. high, and leaves very small compared with the American variety. The priests said the trees were planted by the old Bhuddist priests, together with the Magnolias, Cryptomerias, and Larix. 1 think it very probable that both the Salisburia, Liriodendron, and Podocarpus will some day be found wild in the mountainous portion of Chinese Thibet, from whence they were probably brought by the old Bhuddist missionaries, just the same as the Cryptomeria was taken by them to China, for I believe the Cryptomeria does not grow wild in any other country but Japan. It certainly is not wild in China, as is generally supposed.

I might say that I did not find young seedling trees of Liriodendron, Cryptomeria, and Magnolia; if they were indigenous, one would think that there would be plenty of young seedlings as with other trees. These sacred trees of the old Bhuddists are mysteries still, and will be till the unknown recesses of Thibet be opened up. They may be the remains of old forest trees."