THE GARDENERS 
Monocotyledons occupy а relatively 
150 
Violet, sport from Coe’s Golden Drop; a  piants. 
grand September Plum in um respect. low position. 
e 
y ust ennistoi 
Super! rb: ripens а іп ‘August ; fruit gree: red 
yellow and of good flavour. 
- Wall.—Coe’s почеш. Drop, one of the 
est of all РЇ үче; the tree crops рин 
ently Acl n the trees until 
gore of Kirke s S and Settee: 
у list 
the - “certain cropper of all, and on e 
. Late Orange i is of тин 
; fy colon, ‘orange yellow with a light bloom 
surfac Bryanstone M age, ripens in 
is in every respect. 
Belle de Louvain, Lies bia eavy crops, and 
t is valuable in the ну Fegor 
fenir are fleshy, 
Een fréely and bears abundan Шу reddish- 
purple fruit. ite um Bonum, ripens 
early in September; the fruits are pale cream 
yellow in colour, and а ко for preserving 
or bottling; the tree grows a large size 
Count Ithann’s Gage. ripen Ta the end of 
September, is of rich flavour, roundish an o 
a -purple colo A 
umn Compóte 
1 amber flush | on 
edium 
ze, e bloom ; a useful 
culinary Plum i 
North Wall. wisi n ann’7 
Count Althan 
Gage, Coe's Golden Drop,: ‘Monarch and MA е 
succeed оп north) walls о 
бурш э ЖО will all < 
Molyneux 
THE VEGETATION OF THE CRATER AND 
SUMMIT OF MOUNT ELGON. 
(Concluded from page 
i of the lowland vegeta of 
Uganda are exemplifi a a (the 
same speci d y in the spray of 
the Ripon Falls), Sebaea and Swertia (both 
ti g he Tropics), and an ex- 
quisitely dissected-leaved phic: 
: ptogams specifically occupy the first place 
in the scheme of vegetation, representing about 
$5 per cent. of species collected. The 
majority of these are Mosses аш Lic ‘Onn which 
remain as determin three 
Ferns obtain; the South ‘African _Aspleninm 
furcatum, and : Mice variety of og 
species, stipes. The other Fern 
Ac 
Fu li ne species 
was f 
and only o 
ound, ,appare Te: parasitic on a tree heath 
—a Fili In the Bamboo .Zone a solitary 
specimen of an enormous Daldinia was ee 
with, as large as a child's head, and 
furrows not unlike:the com "m 
tions of the adult iw. No leaf fungi were 
noticed anywhere on the 
) ater, Com- 
posites occupy the highest place with about 20 
species, of w a large Seton 
Rx he Everlastings 
are represented by half “ihat number, eek 
the гай: Order has only опе to its credit; 
Rosaceae Cary respectively by 
6 and 5, pem the remaining Orders (approxi- 
mately 32) by 1—4 species. 
Elgon des m not agree with Volken's remarks 
anent the frequency of bulbous and tuberous 
There are only two Orchids, a Red 
Bulbine? (not in flower), 
an ama—the Sparaxi ndula—a beauti рд 
‘pell-shaped, lilac-mauve Irid, а Romulea a species 
d Hot Poker 
two сн 
r-strewn, we edge- 
plants occupy rocky mass, of which 
a  hoary-leaved, так g Lady’s Ma 5 
(Alchemilla) is the n- prevalent and ubi 
Lichens, ected, are frequen r3 
a and Тага particularly covering the 
cks. It w IM. solk ро - е 
о any botanists who may eani visit 
on, I commend the exploration of the three 
КОШ table-lands, н successively smailer 
than the other т, whic ch str etch warty атды oh th the 
Pe 
ae 
tion- appears to Ж also а orat 
geological features. 
Ani life is by no means wanting, apart 
xs e savages and their stock. The white- 
crow hovers se heights, and 
awifte and _ swallo witter away in the sun- 
shine (when me i )- A n.eleon | wa 
b istinct from either of those de- 
by Johnson in his 
A lizard 
Signal Hill, above Msi TERNA wriggles occa- 
sionally through the ; 
E pidor, A Me. particularly abundant 7 i, the i2 
with dede enfold “thei и. 
e is v freque 
mol ery freq 8 i ben oe every- 
vhere. A dwarf d of em M ed 
reputed to be present, but we failed to s 
tracks. 
Sir Напу Johnston, in his work alluded. то, 
profers a cage aaa list of the эш коса 
the slopes 
joi i au, ЖАШАР about. ie 
ecies, of which, however, only 10 can be con- 
scientiously ve to th iai: plants, the 
remainder bei lowlands. 
of the and 
This as to is, егете: the first ш 
attempt E exploiting’ 4 zr. lapis Ju summit of 
- Eigon slope rial lets 
num! AE ore o fi Ponin ата 
over 2.000 ticketed чон, and embra 
about 600 distinct typ 
scientific sud. dt hoped, will Jo 
uently published "in з ве memoir, 
and the 1l ns and ta of Johnston, 
ное id others, also r. Snowden, 
f 
ct Agricultural Officer, who visited Elgon 
n 1917 and collected further materia l, duly 
short article the writer is 
desire to show what ds untrodden 
El 
e Eldorado, Elgon presents 
the naturalist and the nature lover. 
have onl the fringe the natural 
weal this mountain mass, and if subsequent 
tripper: travellers nly . collec 
material, and communicate this and their data 
or the British Museum, we would 
eventually amass a fu of ation which, 
intelligibly Me wil give some ua 
represent: f one of the most striking topo- 
gra of the Uganda Protectorate— 
Elgon. 
Botanical science generally is too much i 
— despite the Pg n of ae uy 
ш science in this war, ply because 
itimodiatl sor ndi: 
NT shouid be абала b he powers 
creation of an aAa her- 
hum he са jo the ew of 
Uganda’ be made as - 
CHRONICLE 
[Marcu 29, 1919, 
rict Commissioner, Mr. Pe an, 
t Mbale, o t ighout assisted 
possible w. 
way, thus materially contain © othe 
success of the expedition. 2. A. Dru 
TREES AND SHRUBS. 
ABIES FORREST TIL. 
Many of I so-called new Chinese Pepe 
f llected b 
pleasure and йер p , bu 
1s one little drawback, ic “Tittle "rtt" within the 
ute, the ba: fling perplexity that surrounds their 
овое. 
An appointed day for шег ortnodox christen- 
ing seems io have bee вете) > or = 
overlooked in ү duod» of their existence. 
to which names are ge 
title. s 
ld ап: 
ts 
its тагай іп gen 
and colour shades of пета the в hape 
lour of its 
nd experie from 0! 
tre. It коле; labelled, s 
exibition of Chi e Conifers had a 
tab b 
al Agricu касу Society" s show at pd perpe шу 
іп отед. аз А. es lavayii, and ^ 
labelled in the form of s eod, so tar 
recall. ted 
Now A. Delavayii has been what "n 
* described," that is тозае ре o 
ed i 
od 
all and finally defin and out, throng 
EN wn rei i ] certi 
t ook о: А О е 
the reco H entials. of anton о 
identification. Tt requires no second Бе дег 
come to judgment upon this ra eren A. 
the A. Delavayii, nor its pubesc i subject 
Faxonia, have any co 
f this di 
nnection Wl 
esti 
of 1 багу gin A. epa ot dos leaves, 
ti the len 
the ex Ыта and the r of the +168 
ail have proclaimed the шы of th 
entity, 
Je me try and give à ‘prima facie 1 
of its char: actetistics not try an 79 
