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Marcu 22, 1919.] 
Gardeners m Chronicle 
No. 1682.—SA TURDA Y, MARCH 22, 1919. 
co NTS. 
po Garden, the .14 | d .notes and 
ralia, notes ion . 136 | we T bs a noe iés 
dein to the Land," oF ew ny 1: 
exhibition ара con- auo of the: Shrübbeiy 
ference : 140) pear gr ge the Unster fane 
Beigium, dotes feum 149 Map cm m cd 
Black Curian Rosary, the 
vision ” a Rosa  Moyesii var. 
Books, n rosea ... è PST! 
Kew Guild бйр nal .. . 141 | Rose Mrs Wemyss 
Corydalis . .. 184 Quin . 184 
Cultural memora a Royal Horticultural 
Propagati ug plants b Society's War Relief 
means or cuttings 135 Fund . 140 
Desert, iik e {е 133 | Seed grain, dressing 
Farm, ero on Rg p it rdi 
on the kame . 141 
Florists' Flowers octeties — 
Old plants of Cycla- 
men 
Lin 
138 Royal TH 
Freesia a Daddy Longlegs 141 
` 146 
Scottish Horticultural 145 
Frog-Hopper United Horticultural 145 
Cuckoo-Spit, the Em Spraying, for big bud 
Bardeher's notice, a .143| mite 141 
Gardeners’ “ Victor ory” Tomatos, damping o of 
M “memo morial 4| and collar rot of . 142 
+ wages | 144 | Trade notes oes 145 
Mount Elgon, the vege- Trees und shrubs 
tation of the crater flowering 
and summit x Бин 187 
"ime Potato exhi- ulip Trees, the two ... 144 
ition at Birmingham 140 Voles, ineréase of 134 
en hirt ed testin 
IL LUST TRATIONS. 
а ее thalictrifolia, 134; C. Wilsoni 
Poena. old plants of, in flower 
s 
... 146 | Wome 
Daddy Ponele 
Neve, paddy, portrai of the late 
Prunu us cerasife era, flo озгени вру р of 5 
| Wath disease of Pota to 
m 142 
` Nitrogen “fixation is Weather, “The "récent 
a, a bacteria 140| severe . 144 
Nee Bom Week's Work,: the. 1138, 189 
nin horticulture 142 
"HET 
JERES 
FLOWERS. OF THE DESERT. 
D ESE are of many kinds and of all 
degrees of desertion; Pag e entirely de- 
E vod SOE. ode, as in Cen 
Arabia, b Fae ELS ке. пе: Мезоро- 
тунш at seasons 
адегенде, if "ui. vegetation й flocks, 
and, ultimately, 
desert in p 
such 
À i hy books, do "dl ns ndr: 
tions more or red com letely. а ме only men- 
i hoso so ена апа 
h Аса, Се 
popular idea of a 
Dol mind is very 
ates 
< арса 
piat g и 
desert in the star ( ony ап. a nm desert in 
orth, “шы lies the. 
Of th ivilisat 
Chaldea. 
eso; 
_ gravel the 
THE GARDEN TERS 
absence of intolerable heat, enable = a 
o 
vegetation to hurry th rough its brief exist- 
nce, before the desicc ating- summer cuts i 
short. 
The capabilities of the soil, nd "" qe z 
the Mesopotamian sun, must be » be 
lieved. rt is almost incr l pibe usw ^ 
edible 
shall — myself here to erp "of the deserts 
as e пе, s tony It have been these 
t 
spring w Nich gave to the first 
pastoral i inhabitant an inkling of what might be 
achieved with if they settled down to agri- 
Сайы, hinh: an Ет the pus 
river banks, which w ispe 
had only to plant and Slater, and the вой would 
straightway bring forth three and four cro ps a 
A: 
first view of the desert was n" е, 
emories 0 D win a ve pid come ; 
leaves in a cold 
the white E i in spiteful little rcm ; and the 
silence, the sense of loneliness under the cold 
a ghe. дак bright and home-like the camp 
mparison: 
“This nu брег. silt desert, glittering with 
salt, flooded every Lg Tn "es the river rises, 
is a type. It incl ery consid 
least as far n 
de be flooded. Up coun 
lta region Qurmah. to the e sea, a distance 
of roughly one hundred 
that scarcely pire ЖУ will grow 
desert, even 
i 
win 
there — Samphire, 
plant, with crimson, Pea- 
broad eaki this wien 
B авай, to 
and the 
гізіп so mu 
med perdi 
диын of dead а 
wretched village. Bu atin spring i i green with 
grass and sparkling w with fl 
Another Felicis о 
Euphrates tl es the edges 0 
reached, but one has to travel io 
miles up th he Tigris valley before gravel te 
den conglomerate cliffs ‘enclosing. z the river, are 
Мен б verbaps, 20 feet 
vel ridge, ee 
ius in "this one 2 E опсон е the 
ы hich ү зө ne 
Euph and си уды ту 
ness of the Syrian лв а flood 
looded in Easy shove the highs flood 
level, and d the gee dee well drained is — - 
not vel dese мао 
escarpm 'erlooking the Euphrates valley, is, 
e bin ia with Bees, than the 
grassland, mud desert, 
It was with fei cn astonighmen t that I 
the salt 
mud of the Pk M 
** Camel-thorn 
its wid 
of their number . r 
doritor by this time the heat was intense, 
а twelve-mile j camp—I 
CHRONICLE. 
133 
visited this place at the end of April, most ot 
де owers had Piet с Abe seed and withered 
when beyond 
Beghded, 1 saw Moe of the gravel desert.. It 
Г ing then, a had been 
of Ger one wi vender- 
е yellow со Rock Roses, a crimson Silene, 
nd many de eer: A pesce inosae, Compositae 
and others. It visor - nge to find all these 
familiar English f Tigri 
t the deed of the бат civilisation in the- 
find th 
world ore won still to em cover- - 
are m st Temy le. of ‘of the Sun and ‘other famous 
bunidin tand wearily 
chet “the sleeping cities whee now wild 
Rowi bloom on the hanas = РСЕ and earth 
which stre As Pan: mile € A maze of 
Mie zig zag across the. ius every 
ves а d кке, spangled with 
A er war than 
that ач des thsi ud с 
dust is raging I write, but the nodding 
oppies and Aamin ng — still soften the 
outlines of our tren as they hide the 
shame of the razed c 
Bu А ye bim the ‘eae "terraces apt ng gently 
inland from the high cliffs which in the 
Tigris ey a 50 feet piers gi — Sa 
that this desert flora is is best. 
we are 300 oa abov 
$ 
vent it is in the Мориа into which the ihe 
ins and a little is washed,.that the flowers 
cluster th icke st. 
d cities which line the rivi 
bank f shallow crater-like depressions, 
beved to be ancient wells. Now they are 
Apu oen wi 
mingled wi 
in another ced о стеа: 
up from i hed ef orange ‘Barwa: 
‘another hollow ie ды, ое with flam- 
-ing, scarlet Anemone! 
Daisies, violet with | 
Catchfly. Out on the dry gravel are many 
Cruciferae, inosae, Со itae, and other 
flowers ; but the flora is in some pine, 
ather than desert, in its с Ў we 
d compact, tte plants with deep tap roots, 
йн , such as fleshy leaves, 
eat al 1 Qe =: plants. 
areas, and kige itions of many desert 
na found ise gi the banks of 
irrigation v channel Ti si espelis ; 
нф аан 
om of gue in 
% е more typical of the hard, 
here cess of salt in 
n. d coral-. 
— d wu species 
desert plan 
epa wher 
tilla, Rumex and others grow here. 
They all form either tufts 
closely . imbrica: 
Ton. pressed E 
esert, too. 
тон 
ляй sci Other flowers are scattered over ће: 
