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Pont de Nant they were making in the middle of 

 JMay. Just inside the entrance-gate is a rock-work 

 profusely studded with such rosy-magenta gems as 

 Primulas latifolia, integrifoUa, longijiora, venusia^ 

 calycina^ hirsuta, marginata, minima, and Cash- 

 meriana. Further on, along the path which winds 

 down the face of the cliff, was a lovely white form 

 of Viola calcarata, nestling with Saocifraga atro- 

 purpurca, the rosy Androsace sempervivoides, and 

 the ' Floraire ' variety of Androsace Churnbyi. 

 Here, too, was the violet-veined Geranium, 

 argenteum, the yellow, marguerite-like Aronicum 

 scorpioides, the exquisite and uncommon white 

 form of lAnaria alpina, the Caucasian Dororiicuui 

 (with not so fine a flower as that of its Swiss 

 relation), and a large and wonderfully rich blue 

 form of Geiitiana acaulis. In fact, in this garden, 

 situated as it is, and not being strictly scientific, 

 M. Henry Correvon has had more scope for 

 attractive display than has Professor Wilczeck at 

 the Pont de Nant. And the result is extremely 

 fascinating. When no mists and clouds are 

 drifting up from the Lake of Geneva, and we are 

 wandering up and down the steep paths, peering 

 into the manv ru^u^ed nooks and corners decked 

 with the floral treasures of the world's Alps, we 



