PACIFIC SLOPE PLANTS IN ENGLISH GARDENS. 145 
or 9d. each; Brodiwa Hendersoni, B. Howelliit and B. 
volubilis 1/ each; Calochortus Lyoni 1/6 each; C. Kennedy 
1/9 each; and Camassia Leichtlini 3/6 each. 
The love of flower-culture has directly benefited the 
botanist in more than one way. To it, entirely, may be 
attributed the sending out of James Bowie, Allan Cunning- 
ham, David Douglas, and other collectors, on those expeditions 
which did so much to advance systematic botany. It 
has further resulted in the publication of plant-portraits such 
as those of the Botanical Magazine, Botanical Register, 
Gardeners’ Chronicle, and Gartenflora, which have been of 
Such service in the accurate delimitation of types. It 
will be of interest to West-American botanists to see that 
Lilium Parry has recently been figured in the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle, (Aug. 24th; 3 ser., xviii, 209) the drawing 
having been made from a specimen recently flowered, for the 
first time (?), under cultivation in England, and exhibited as 
a novelty at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society by 
Messrs. Wallace, Nurserymen, of Colchester. The figure is 
accompanied by the following extract from Dr. Parry’s 
account of the plant as given by Elwes in his Monograph of 
the genus Lilium (1880):— 
“Tn one of my last botanical excursions in the vicinity of 
San Bernardino in July, 1876, I accepted an oft-repeated 
invitation to visit the intelligent brothers J. F. and F. M. 
Ring in their mountain retreat near San Gorgonio Pass. 
Leaving the broad and picturesque basin of the Santa Ana 
Valley near the emergence of the stream from the rugged 
mountain-wall of the San Bernardino range, our route, after 
crossing Mill Creek, hugged the foothills bordering the Upper 
Yucaipa Valley; thence by a more rapid ascent in a nearly 
direct easterly course, we reached an elevated bench scattered 
with Pine and Oak groves, overlooking the broad sweep of 
the San Gorgonio Pass, now traversed by the eastern exten- 
sion of the South Pacific Railroad. In one of these mountain 
nooks the Messrs. Ring have located a potato ranch, the 
elevation of over 4000 feet giving a sufficiently cool, moist 
