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season. The golden-coloured varieties of Yew are very 

 bright and extremely well-coloured. 



Herbaceous plants, though late in flowering, are still 

 very fine ; the early spring-flowering bulbs, &c., have 

 ripened a fair supply of good seeds. 



The rock-garden was most attractive during June, 359 

 species and varieties of plants came into flower, besides a 

 large proportion of those which commenced to flower in 

 May continued to flower into June. A few of the more 

 interesting plants in flower were : — AcijjJiylla squarrosa, 

 Allium M'Leariii, • Androsace foliosa, Anthyllis erinacea, 

 Aruni "palsBstinum, Campanula ahietina, Cynoglossum ner- 

 vosum, Gypripedium parvifiorum, DiantJms " Michael Foster" 

 EnkiantJms himalaicus, Eriyeron aurantiacus, Edraianthus 

 pwmiliorum, E. serpyllif alius, Geranium anemonsefolium, G. 

 armenum, Hdberlea robusta, Heucliera sanguinea. Iris Cen- 

 gialti Linum acuminatuvi, Meconopsis aculeata, Mimidus 

 Burnettii, Nardostacliys Jatamansi, Olearia furfuraeea, 0. 

 macrodonta. Orchis foliosa, 0. maculata superha, Pentstemon 

 humile, P. Menziesii, Polemonium Jlavum, Primula reticidata, 

 Ramondia pyrenaica cdha, Rhododendron ferrugineum alhum, 

 Saponaria ocymoides Loderii, Saxifraga Valdensis, Trifolium 

 unijlorum, Verhascum olympicum, Veronica amplexicaulis, V. 

 Bidwillii, V. anomala, V. linifolia, &c. 



Readings of exposed Thermometers at the Rock-Garden of the 

 Royal Botanic Garden, Edinhurj^li, during June 1891. 



