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poppy {Meconopsis integrifolia) . Numberless beautiful plants 

 were seen in the same district — a perfect paradise of flowers. 

 New species of Spiraea, Anemone, Buddleia, Abelia, Pedicularis, 

 Senecio, Anemone, Primula, Polygala, etc., abounded. Another 

 yet more arduous journey was made to Sungpan by Mr. E. H, 

 Wilson a few months later, and again the finding of new species 

 rewarded this intrepid and highly successful collector. The 

 home of the Meconopsis integrifolia was reached in June, 1903. 

 The next spring visitors to the " Temple Show "^ were thrilled 

 by the sight of this beauteous flower, and the seeds were dis- 

 tributed in September, 1904, so rapidly can the treasures of an 

 almost unexplored country be brought nowadays to an English 

 garden. 



From Africa also new flowers are still constantly arriving. 

 The West Coast, Nigeria, and Liberia have furnished their 

 share, and the brilliant Kalankoe from Somaliland repre- 

 sents the drier East. The scarlet Gerbera Jamesoni^ now 

 known as the " Transvaal Daisy," was not grown in this 

 country before the late war. Only dwellers in South Africa 

 were familiar with the " Barberton Daisy," as it was called, 

 from the place in which it was first discovered.^ Now not only 

 the pure flame-coloured Daisy, but numerous garden hybrids, 

 are commonly met with in England. Notwithstanding the 

 increased knowledge of African plants, only about ten per cent, 

 have been introduced, although a large number are well worth 

 cultivation.^ 



1 The exhibition of the Royal Horticultural Society, held in the 

 Temple Gardens. 



2 Called after R. Jameson, a Natal botanist. 



3 It is interesting to know that the wiie of Mr. Barber, the founder 

 01 the town {nee Bowker), was a naturalist and collector, and she 

 found the lovely Cyrtanthus sanguinea on the site of Barberton, when 

 she first camped there uith her husband. 



* When travelhng with my husband in South Africa just before the 

 war, and until January, 1900, we collected in Rhodesia for Kew, and 

 were successful in finding no less than forty new species, some of which 

 would be well suited for culture in England, but very few have as yet 

 been grown here. I have now been able to hand over to Messrs. Sander 

 a pretty Gloriosa liitea, and Hcemanthus Cecilcs has flowered in this 

 country, but many, such as Kczmpferia Cecilys, Pavetta Cecilia;, or 

 Abutilon Cecili, have not yet been imported at all. 



