No. 399. 
DAPHNE ALTAICA. 
Mass, Order. 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
This is a native of the Altay mountains in 
Tartary. We believe it was first raised in 
England from seeds by our late worthy 
friend, Mr. James Donn, of Cambridge. 
The flowers are beautiful and very fra- 
grant, and the plant grows to a moderate 
size, with upright branches, producing 
abundance of blossoms through the month 
of May. In Professor Pallas's figure, in 
his Flora Rossica, the flowers are only four 
or five together, but on some of our plants 
we have had as many as eight or nine. 
This perhaps is owing to the difference of 
cultivation. It may be increased by grafting 
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