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places in our gardon, always sunny and dry, and 

 they all grew well. Now tiny are rambling every- 

 where, flowering freely hut ih'Ver seed. So we are 

 ohiiged to increase it liy tlie big long stolons 

 which are sometimes three to four feet long laider 

 ground, and are difficult tn make root. It glows 

 quite differently from all the other Roses, and 

 remains dwarf here (not exceeding two feet in 

 height. In England, however, I saw it nuicli 

 bigger. With my late fricnrl. Mr. Marc. Micheli, 

 here at the Castle of Jussy Gardens, it did the 

 same thing, not exceeding two feet, but growing 

 very invading. 



It nnist have a very siuiiiy and dry situation, 

 and lie kept dry, especially in winter, in weil- 

 diained soil. 



The plant grows wild from Persia eastwards to 

 the Altai Mountains and the Dsungarian deserts, 

 reaching an altitude of S.ddii feet on some moiui- 

 tains. 



Lindley named it ],i,iri,i l)ei-heiidifoliti , and 

 Dumortier Hiilthenia beibii idifolia, while Salis- 

 bury called it VnSd sinipliiifolia, and Michaux 

 Bdsii persicd. The plant is seldom seen now in 

 gardens, but ought to be luhivated in the inlli-i,- 

 tions of Europe more generally. 



H. CoRREVON, Floraire, Geneva. 



Primula Allionii. 



Th.1t dear little plant — one of the most charming 

 and smallest of all the Primroses — is not at 

 all so rare and scarce as suj>posed. The one fact 

 is that it is not easy to find. I, for years and 

 years, went to the Roya mcks to seek it, and 

 found it ill two parts only, the places known to 

 everybody near to Fontan and St. Dahnazzo. 

 But last year, at the end of February, I was 

 ascending the highest rotks over Fontan, and 

 found it in high altitudes su very common and 

 in such quantities tliat I thought it as common 

 as our rriinuhi v'tscusa— hiisuta. Some patches 

 were more than a foot broad, and they were then 

 covered with hundreds of Howers, quite sessile, 

 and making carpets of pink corollas, very com- 

 pact and beautiful. In the month of May I 

 found it again in the perpendicular rocks of the 

 upper part of the Roya near to Tencla, and 1 

 cannot say that rrhiiulii Allionii is a rare plant 

 at all. It only requires courage and strength to 

 discover it. Only an alpine climber can find it 

 in the upper parts of the Roya. It protects itself 

 by growing in perpendicular walls, where no 

 ciiniber and no chamnis can ever reach ! 



It flowers here at Floraire in the first days of 

 March, end of February often, and keeps its 

 flowers a very long time fresh. It wants a 

 crevice or a hole in a wall, and must be kept 

 rather dry. 



H. CoRREVoN. Floraire, Geneva. 



Some Beautiful Martagon Lilies. 



At the end of June, 19(14, I had the brilliant sight 

 of an immense field of Lilium c(irnioIicuin. the 

 beautiful red Martagon of tl:e South Austrian Alps. 

 I was climbing the Monte Summano | where the 

 war has since brought distress and ruin), and after 

 having traversed fields of sky-blue Litliospenniim 

 :immi)iifoUum mixed with Linum viscusum and 

 Seiiipidx lonijipefdht, I came to the top where an 

 ideal view showed us to be near the boundary of 



Austria and the gold-coloured Dolomites. Then 

 suddenly we came through a pasture as red as 

 the fields of Pop))i,,, in our countries. What is 

 it? said I to my guide. He did not know, but 

 when coming through we found a field of Liliuin 

 cm nidliciiiii. They were there as close to one 

 another as the red Poppies in Messrs. Sutton's 

 cultures which I oiice saw fi'om the railway near 

 Rea<ling. 



But iiuich deepei in colour, much nunc brilliant 

 in its vermilion dress, is the marvellous ]. ilium 

 poinpoiiiuin of the South of France. I^asl year 

 1 went to the Maritime Alps to see it, as I was 

 never before there at the right time. I came to 

 Nice at the beginning of June, and went into the 

 Var valley by the Sud line. A botanist friend 

 and I spent thiee days through the stony slopes 

 of the Var. It is impossible to convey in words 

 the beauty of the Maritime Alps. Only poor Mr. 

 Farrer could express that beauty. I cannot. 



The graceful, slender stalk (30 to 50 cent, 

 high) bears thiee to five Martagon flowers of the 

 deepest vermilion — almost as deep as L. chali-e- 

 tloniruiii. which it resembles so much — glowing to 

 the luminous and hot sun of the Maritime Alps. 

 To my great surprise, the bidns were sunk in 

 rocky crevices or among broken stones, and very 

 hard to get. We could get nothing hut the young 

 ones, as the oldest were too deep in the rocks, 

 seldom in any soil — and how difficult the flowers 

 are to dry for the herbarium ! 



Liliuin pyieniiicuni is another Martagon, but 

 with greenish-yellow flowers adorned with six liig 



Thk H.\unt of the Primrose. 

 ('.ire's Glen, Belf.ist. 



