376 The Floral Sanctuary of a Meanwoodside Garden. 



One is the smoke-tree {Rhus Cotinus, or cotinoides Nutt. in 

 this American form) with the sparingly developing seeds of 

 the immensely plumose panicular pedicels (like grey feather 

 or reek) growing gibbous after cashew-nut fashion; and the 

 other the Cornel ' cherry ' of the Dogwood tribe, inconspicuous 

 enough except when in fruit, though possessing a mask all its 

 own ; the Red English dogwood companions it here. Last, 

 but by no means least, in the forefront of the shrubbery, riots 

 the finest, largest and possibly oldest Hazelnut tree in the north 

 of England. It is npteworthy not only from its bulk and loft 

 (quite 30 feet) but for its well-developed rugged scabby and 

 fissured forest-tree bark, hardly recognisable as one with the 

 grey shiny scurfy rind of the wandy hazel of the holt. It deserves 

 its picture ' taken ' by aid of the sun in latest autumn when 

 the bulk of its rough umber leaves have planed or shuttled 

 down to make another layer of that mould the lowliest flowers 

 of earth so dearly love. Its tiers of leafage were too sun-shot at 

 the time of our illustration, painstakingly kodaked by Douglas 

 las Eaton. 



For the rest, of uncommon and so far significant naturalis- 

 ations in the protected purlieux of this Flora's glebe, on whose 

 beauties amorous Sol has palinured (as Stevenson might 

 have said ) without molestation or any rival, for quite seventy- 

 five 3'ears, considerations of space forbid a full enumeration. 

 We turn to go, and yet more than once look back, for an almost 

 amphiental Alpine Rose is there ! shedding its full crimson 

 petals indifferently upon its multitude of gory thorns, upon 

 ivory-bell'd tuberous com.frey, growing now no nearer than 

 Nidd or Yore ; and gentian-blue Stone seed {Lithospermum 

 ptirpurco-ccsruleum — (the longest name in our flower-basket) ; 

 whilst in another corner by the flag-fringed pool, the Indian 

 ' Shallon ' or Leather Leaf, a wintergreen of the Klondyke, 

 with pink-flusht waxen bell-bloom, seems to outbreathe a 

 mute appeal, ' Sniff me — I smell of the sweet birch and the 

 pine gulch I came from,' to our sense ; but time flies, and one 

 must hurry away, past Canadian cinque-foil at our feet, with 

 Poison-Oak and Traveller's Joy on either hand to that exit 

 from this veritable jail of the Uncultivated which is, one may 

 suppose, unique since we quite long to be immured in it again. 



The South African Journal of Natural History, being the official organ of 

 the South African Biological Society, with which is incorporated the 

 Journal of the South African Ornithologists' Union,' Vol. I., No. i, 122 pp., 

 6/-, is an excellent publication. It contains a history of the Biological 

 Society, and of the South African Ornithologists' Union and the Transvaal 

 Biological Society. There are many papers on birds, insects, and a 

 description of a new South African Baboon. There is an illustration and 

 description of ' The Captain Scott Memorial Medal.' The publicati9n is 

 well printed and well edited. 



Naturalist, 



