54 Rock Gardening. 



at Kew. But as yet none of the family has there 

 borne the combined effects of a winter and spring's 

 cold and damp, though they bloom on a rockery 

 beautifully during summer, and are easily afterwards 

 preserved. 



B. Davisii, recently found near Chupe, in Peru, at 

 an elevation of 10,000 feet, is thought by many to 

 excel all other known tuberous-rooted varieties, from 

 brilliance of colour and compactness of habit. It 

 is figured in the Botanic Magazine for 1876, Tab. 

 6252. 



I have learned from a faithworthy and experi- 

 enced gardener, that some pieces of roots of the same 

 group as B. rex, which happened to be in soil which 

 he took from within a house to enrich a holly he was 

 planting outside, in the month of March, grew up in 

 summer, and flowered under the tree's shade, and 

 lived there throughout the next winter and spring. 

 That happened in the Queen's County ; and in the 

 month of September I saw in a nook, outside my 

 friend Mr. Jessop's fernery, at Cabinteely, more than 

 one young plant of a like kind, which grew there 

 without having intentionally been planted there. 



Heterotropa Asaroides, called also Asarum Japo- 

 nicum, is a peculiar-looking little plant, for which we 

 are indebted to Japan, with leaves mottled somewhat 

 like those of some Cyclamens. Though generally 

 treated as an indoor plant, I believe it will bear our 

 winters in many places. Spring is its blooming sea- 

 son. 



