Proceedings of the Club 



641 



great variety of size in the same soil, with httle dwarfs with one 

 flower at one inch high. 



Professor Porter spoke of G.flavida as recently found in Bucks 



Co. . 



Dr. Rusby referred to a successful experiment in scattering the 

 seeds of the fringed gentian upon the snow, resulting in a profusion . 



of young seedlings. 



Mr. Henshaw paid a tribute to the beauty of the alpine gen- 

 tians of the Old World, and to the cultivation of seedling tulips by 

 his father, waiting till the seventh year for them to ** break," grow- 



ing only late-flowering tulips. 



M 



Henshaw said he had no 



theory of the cause but had never known one to fail to *' break/' 

 and knows of no other plant of similar habit. ' 



Rev. L. T. Chamberlain spoke of a walk near Fabyan*s in the 



hite M 

 Cyprip 



•icaulc, seemingly a hundred thousand plants. 



Edward S. Burgess, 



Secretary, 



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