JANUARY 1 1 



suitably bare ground under pines or firs, they may be 

 trusted to make a pretty show a couple of autumns 

 hence. 



Most of our plants have rose - coloured blooms, 

 descended from parents which I grubbed out of a loose 

 stone wall near Ragusa in Dalmatia; but a seedling 

 with pure white flowers sprang up in a gravel walk in 

 our garden and has produced a numerous progeny of 

 the same wan hue. 



Gerard traduced this innocent plant most gratuit- 

 ously, declaring that it was most injurious to women in 

 that state of health which wives do greatly desire who 

 love their lords. ' About the place where it groweth in 

 my garden,' says he, 'I have fastened stickes in the 

 ground, and some other stickes I have fastened also 

 cross-waies over them, lest any women by lamentable 

 experiment find my words to be true by their stepping 

 over the same.' 



IV 



The question has often been discussed among anglers 

 Why do salmon, ascending rivers with the 



To-and-Fro 



primary intention of depositing their spawn, Movements 

 i -of Salmon 



enter them in the early spring, and even in 



the winter months, with their ovaries so little developed 

 that they cannot undertake reproduction before late 

 autumn at earliest? The habits of salmon vary so 

 considerably in different rivers, large and small, that it 

 would be rash to offer an explanation of general applica- 

 tion; but my own observation, confirmed by the 



