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Marcu 22, 1919.] 
ponium, were булгур on in а desultory fashion. 
A few species had depar ныг г xe d those 
garden acclimatised M ep T 
“speci osum, L. elegar É 
Hansonii, L. кйш; were just as one ex- 
pected to find 
L. longiflorum, in pre-war days a most satis- 
facto ly, hi and remained 
e and remedy for such a lazy habit? 
Also can ; reader enlighten to the 
bctanical differences between L. ei (some- 
as & elegans variety) and L. 
Batemanniae? A the distinctions which 
separate m from L. Sargentiae? 
L. sulphur 
And, whilst on the ШЙ ао just where 
poem L. 
umbellatum find its level? Raita d тв give 
its origin as L uri gee руы a чаг is con- 
fused with L. croceum. . davuricum be hav 
bought from various pied rng or hut 
what I get looks u^ a Мз undesirable ‘form 
of L. umbellatum, ich to 
parental icone’. | ere ай m, in ose 
attains five sic т height ; its “cultural require- 
ments are dec y different from the 
L. umbellatus. 
ough your columns, I should like to 
IRR the kindnesses I experienced from 
English garden lovers whi in hospital 
especially must I thank your assistant editor, 
and Messrs. , Elwes, Ellwood and 
The lovely flowers which they sent or broug 
did leaven the tedium of waiting for 
bones ; and while I scarcely expect to 
repay x in similar ci tances 
that some pe will occur whereby 
debt of gratitude which 1 
1 Errey, Erreys P.O., 
Victoria, А ustra. 
TREES AND SHRUBS. 
AN EARLY FLOWERING PRUNUS. 
January. at time, Vs one or two of the 
were sufficiently developed to show the 
ips of the white petals just inning to 
n calyx; yet by the 
flower and formed а welcom arbi 
spring. rhe plant is "ri 
MT 
i$ 
seldom fruits in England, екі owing to its 
early Ч Saag т habit. It ene eels hedges, 
if trimmed, but then the necessary pru 
it little chance of flowering 
A]mon brane hes may ae rly be induced 
to flower two or three weeks in advance of 
hows eps seing dh R. Dykes, Charter- 
THE VEGETATION OF THE CRATER AND 
SUMMIT OF MOUNT ELGON. 
(Continued from page 123 
лыш 
Ben rOCks are ол entirely 
Every- 
thing has a look of decrepitu s 
and senility—it 
well pat ND. : wil Boer: 
bs.. 
' vowed yr an 
THE GARDENERS CH RONICLE. | 
needs only a few Alpine Dinosauria feeding on 
the Čabbago-like tree Groundsels Ре е 
vast tussocky-grassed tracts to complete a very 
archaic picture. 
The silence is weird, broken only occasionally 
ite-necked crow, or 
presses 0: he infinite, and the 
fittleneca, sita man. Even our hitherto loquacious 
uides appeared to be silent, though this was, 
and towards and 
snow impede 
clement, persisting in sleeting, 
at the summit a three- oe fail of s 
a effecte. “upon my compan 
ed and somewhat ек гели 
Vaini “commenced at Crater Camp, and though 
adjured him not to go further, 
his de 
н 
though at a very ie Sa rate, bed Journey taking 
e hours from | Crater s . instead of the 
He sg 
eyes yos sdshot, his ears 
ed, 
tina at. the temples wa 
the thumpiug of his | heart 
blue, while the 
very painfu ul, and 
+ distance 
was e very slow, ped it gave me 
Fic. 58.—FLOWERING SPRAY OF PRUNUS 
an excellent opportunity of foraging botanically, 
much “booty ” being secured. 
Our guides (three Мигела) showed remark- 
able fortitude, and, with the exception of one, 
m at a fire which I made at the 
base of the Peak (14,100 fest) эй assist him in 
вара the use of his көг ed the summit, 
where, es due deco i names were 
insc sake of uer and placed in the 
bottle vmi cairn of кош, оон the cold 
writing was bu laboured. 
rsis isted i its Bene 
a 
ins, a pee n view oe re- 
to wh 
vou w y ph ag 
ie which was confirmed by a пасва of 
wo Masin Gishu е teau, whom I subsequently 
met had noticed the phenomenon and 
he had only seen it once in abe 
eight years he had been ate. 
I had the 
e his sympa 
affinit ity of the grasslands 
sh those of ne оа Scottish moo 
ven Lr failed to M EN erit. - 
„the t rickli sho 
М ? he 
nthupiasm. (It is hot anytning alcoholic 
137 
: am alluding to, though I must Spem s had 
*nip " of brandy at the summit, com- 
ae rate t 
Not far froin Po summit there is s a small crater 
uatic б 
lake, fringed by ап aquatic quatic herb 
inches high, which latter remains as yet a 
botanical mystery. The ban f this lakelet 
were literally covered by the spawn of frogs, as 
arge as fair-sized peas. 2 return to 
Crater Camp, MacLennan wish y down and 
die, and Rien indifferent ae of health 
foliowed ie example The 
7 n and had 
me: 
ending the 
Fick Matri]. and dat 
The similarity of the “Alpine vegetation of 
Elgon, Ruwenzori, Kenia and Kilimanjaro is 
a 
CERASIFERA. 
and Volken’s Biers ga e of that of 
known, 
is much in cord with 
the "eria mountain mass 
what I notic 
Volken een 
u 
ary, grey-felted ee 
blackening with age e bd persistent aad es eflex 
rotect eap is 
bleak mooorlands, present a picture irresistibl, 
callin e summit of T Mountain. 
the other hand swards of a a Polytrichum 
—obtain, just as at erm above Loch 
Lomond 
chids are very -— t least at the time 
nein рече in- 
covering 
Anthospermum aet Роз & Rubiaceous 
* Schimper’s Plant Geography, pp. 638-741. 
