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The fertility of the soil is scarcely open to description. At 

 the time of our visit, the rice was short, two to three feet high, 

 but wonderfully dense; the buckwheat fields were absolutely 

 white with blossom; the trees of persimmon, chestnut, and russet 

 pears were bending with fruit; the soy beans, pulled up whole 

 and offered that way in the markets, were crowded with pods. 

 And the land must needs be fertile to support the dense popula- 

 tion, which appears to be almost one continuous village. 



(To be continued) 



ROSA NUTKANA 



By J. K. Henry ' 



This paper aims to present some of the variations of R. nutkana 

 as it grows near the coast of southern British Columbia. No 

 account is taken of those forms with simply serrate, mostly 

 eglandular leaflets, which occur at Shawnigan, Vancouver Island, 

 and Spence's Bridge, and which are possibly referable to R. 

 meleina Greene, a species reduced to synonymy by Dr A. Nelson. 

 All the forms here examined have doubly serrate leaflets glandular 

 beneath, and more or less glandular calyx and peduncles. 



In the neighborhood of Vancouver and Elgin (near Blaine, 

 Wn.) this rose has stout stems 1-3 m. high, at base either naked 

 or densely clothed with rather weak somewhat retrorse prickles. 

 The ordinary prickles vary from narrowly lanceolate to broadly 

 triangular, are usually in pairs or more or less scattered, but 

 often as shown in Figs. 2 and ii more or less grouped. Such 

 grouping, however, does not appear to be concomitant with 

 other variations, and often occurs in a less marked way. So, too, 

 the broadly triangular prickles may occur with very different 

 fruit-forms, — ^with subglobose in Fig. 10 and strongly flattened 

 in Fig. 9. Recurved prickles are not at all rare, sometimes 

 occurring with the straight, sometimes (Fig. 8) giving character 

 to a clump. 



This species flowers on the flats at Elgin about the end of the 

 first week in June; on dry slopes near Vancouver with a favor- 

 able exposure, about fifteen days earlier. The flowers vary in 



