Sir W. J. Hooker's annual report on these justly celebrated gardens, has been issued in pamphlet form, and a good synopsis will be found in the Gardener's Chronicle for July 2, 1859. The duties of the employes are defined in such a manner as to show that they have no sinecure. The greatest number of persons admitted in one day to the Gardens (where they have free access to all parts), has been 13,761. The best attended months, as may be supposed, are June, July, and August, during which we have numbered so many as 267,223 persons. The fewest visitors are in November, December, and February, when they have been so low as 4,679.

A good regulation is mentioned in the following paragraph: - The public are forbidden to carry baskets of provision or parcels into the Gardens, or large reticules which may excite suspiciou, or similar articles which facilitate the concealment of specimens.

The Palms unquestionably stand unrivalled; as do the Ferns, particularly the Tree Ferns; the Cactuses, Agaves, Aloes, and other succulent plants, and the Bananas. Among the last is the most extraordinary plant in all our collections, the gigantic Abyssinian Banana (Musa Ensete), described and figured by no author, save the celebrated Bruce, and now first introduced to Europe through W. C. M. Plowden, Esq., the British Consul at Mussowah. This striking herbaceous plant has attained in the Palm stove, in five years' time, a height of more than 30 feet, with a stem of 7 1/2 feet in circumference, and leaves, of which the blade, independ-ant of the stalk or petiole, is 16 feet long! It also now shows promise of a flower-spike, corresponding with its foliage. The Orchideons Plants, under a recently-appointed and very skilful special cultivator, are improving remarkably. The singular Pitcher Plants, the noble Zamias, the Cycads and their allies, the Rice-paper Plant of Formosa, the wonderful Lattice-Leaf (Ouvirandria fenestralis) brought by the Rev. William Ellis from the Lakes of Madagascar, the Traveller's Troe (Urania speciosa), described by the same writer, the Lace Bark of Jamaica, the rare Cinchona, or best Peruvian hark, the noble collection of Sikkim Himalayan Rhododendrons, to say nothing of objects of lessor note, particularly of the almost innumerable, hardy and out-of-door plants, have proved highly attractive to all.