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Epilohium angustifoUum ; pink, 4 feet high. 



Gentiana acauUs ; dark blue, very dwarf; makes a pretty edging. 



Hepatica acrulea pleno ; double blue, very dwarf. 



rubra pleno ; double red, ditto. 



triloba ccerulca ; blue, ditto. 



triloba alba; white, ditto. 



triloba rubra; red, ditto. 



Iberis saxatilis ; white, 9 inches high. 



Garrexiana ; ditto, ditto. 



Lychnis chalcedonica pleno ; double scarlet, 1^ feet high. 



■ alba pleno ; double white, J 2^ feet high. 



Morina longifoUa ; white, changing to pink, 2 feet high. 

 Narcissus Bulbocodium ; yellow, 6 inches high. 

 Orobiis vermis ; purple, 1 foot high. 

 Phlox omnijlora ; white, 1 foot high. 



setacea ; pink, dwarf, and very pretty. 



Van Houtii ; white and pink, 2 feet high. 



Scilla bifolia ; blue, very dwarf. 



siberica ; light blue, ditto. 



Scutellaria macruntha ; bluish purple, 1 foot h.igh. 

 Valeriana rubra; bright pink, 2-i feet high. 

 Veronica amethystina ; blue, \^ feet high. 



latifolia ; blue, 3 feet high. 



rosea; rose, 2 feet high. 



spicata ; blue, I foot high. 



alba ; white, \^ feet high. 



Kew, W. Allan. 



NOTES FROM THE LOG-BOOK OF AN ERRATIC :MAN. 



No. V. 



A FRAGRANT GREETING. 



A FEW days after the occurrence related in my last leaf, we had 



" Struck soundings 

 In the channel of Old England," 



and were feeling our way to the eastward pretty well satisfied with 

 our position from having spoken a boat but a short time out from 

 Plymouth. The weather was very thick, after much warm rain and 

 a southerly wind. It was about ten o'clock p.m. ; t)ie ladies had just 

 retired to their cabins for the night ; the gentlemen were over their 

 last game of chess and backgammon ; when the captain, who was on 

 deck, desired the steward to send the servants round to the ladies 

 with his compliments, and to request their company upon the poop. 

 The fog had been suddenly cleared away by the wind coming off the 

 land, and with it had come all the charming fragrance of our English 

 fields and wild flowers, appealing as palpably to the senses as if we 

 had run bump into the middle of a haycock. 'J'he moon, too, was 



