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if I could, as - the осони in words 
of Li ler s Latin so oam: 
but in simple sophisticated С олер strair 
of mother to 
The most а-на {Ӯ feature that first catches 
the eye, is the brilliant, vivid. silver -white 
stomatiferous i 
o it on ч E t, perhaps mos 
arresting characteristic the bright, dark 
erange, glabro an ае surfaced twigs, 
which seem glow with a redundant and un 
excelled robustness of health, that, for 
ic n, ti lourea, corr 
pub i es, twigs he Himalay an 
х humi s, but star da A v en ih ШУ. 
disclosing по bare centre of V de Tess on and 
mM pa 
ffect of күке, of the lea 
E looking on it, as ay the А: 
ranks those who it from below. 
The a gth of the leaf 3 is 5 13 inch (rather shorter 
than that of i ival A. Webbi eee; and the 
length и" the. median leaves about 1j 
inch ү pex of the leaf is ms 1 t 
sharply bifid, as in the case of A. Webbiana 
d u of 
many planted here in Radnorshire, at altitud es 
varying from 700 to 800 feet above sea level, 
measured over 7 fee a 18. our conscience 
should smite us tnat we are beginning to out- 
stay our welcome in your 'colu Chas. 
Coltman Rogers, Stanage Parks радно shire. 
THE ALPINE GARDEN. 
COPTIS. 
Rane teresting genus Coptis belongs to the 
атй ages aid consists E about half a 
dozen s of low.g growing evergreen plants 
rt] Tem 
s m 
kort лпа Thalictrum. The name Coptis signifies 
ШЫГ, їп теїегет the numerous divisio 
vu es. e species are mostly d 
^ з, and all е 1 artly shaded 
situations. r arly in year 
í ze 
Scapes a few inches high. This species is a 
of Ja «d 
OCCIDENTALIS.— This is one of the largest 
i A more than a foot in height. 
leaves are Чен. i and the leaflets are 
inches deeply and un- 
equally Se pev lobed. The white flowers have 
nd a ally 
together on a "in. ND Vw ia pince 
of North Ameri 4 
C. ORIENTAL 
L E i (see fig. 63).—This species 
looms in February, and makes 4 cepe pla: СА for 
and 
d 
The pi рр considerably after flowering. 
С oou native of Japan. 
- FOL kA. This, du most widely spread 
THE G ARDEN ERS’ CHRO NICLE. 
and commonest species of al the Coptis, is 
ta in the mossy ig Canada, Sibe ria 
and Northern Euröpe a orms a dwarf 
growing, creeping plant vith магае leav 
and pretty, white flowers a ag flowered 
д ЖЛЕ 'e 
co 
1% is a suitable plant aty 
spreading and forming ccn carpet 
studded from April to July with flow W.Z 
—— 
THE ROSARY. 
YELLOW ROSES. 
eT teful to your des nts, Messr 
alte ter « р and "Matchet t Watson, for their 
ы азун on my articles оп Үе slow Roses. I 
think Mr. Easlea is de n in suggesting that 
I should have b 
ircluded (I take the aor of the name from 
the Noms. des Roses, which is usually accurate). 
This Rose was brought out in 1880, and I still 
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present I have seen no beds of it in my fr iends & 
Loca that would induce me to alter my 
ion. 
ona pco -— the same fate, but seeme E 
even a worse grower, as it did little even as 
maiden. "This "T much regretted, for it n 
magnificent colour. Of the other Roses men- 
Tue by Mr. Easlea I have as yet no exper- 
ier ce. 
Mr. Watson refers to the question of perfume, 
and here, pore os, I must plead some рег zonai 
defect. I am fully conscious that Duc 
г Wellington variety has a per 
pleasing to others, and which I recognise as a 
scent “ch, if left to myself, I sho i 
tyne. 
as ‹ Tea Rose type But I recognise 
agrance at this type rather as a тє of prac 
e ihan of any pleasurable sensation it pro- 
ай) 'eenall a Rose of v 
good ,Eromp, and o bis: iato highly 
cts. It is an excellent gr 7 ) 
foli age, and the flowers, though thin, are weil 
moni It has, however, two serious faults, 
[Photograph by W. Irving. 
Fic, 63.—COPTIS ORIENTALIS; FLOWERS WHITE. 
vee igre of it. With me, though it 
have a plan 
oF er in ш to ГҮ occus 
grows well, 
much att edis ba t have see: ing 
in Glo ucesterahire gar das it is b anis: a фт 
Rose, and well worthy of all Mr. Easlea writes 
about i it. 
Medea and Mme. Hoste are both fine ex- 
hibition Teas, but were omitted from my 
] too pale i for the class of 
ses I was considering Mme. oste i 
perhap he bord e in this respect. 
late years I have grown it er irely a 
standards, but, alas! I s have no flowers 
r em this year, for every one of tlie 
was destroye j the h clinging ‘snows 
February, which seriously crippled я several o 
my standards, and in the En Hoste 
destroved the remaining plants ei "breaking 
the insertion of the 
below 
Margaret Dickson Hamil wa Шы dor tw 
years here, but though. it came well as а Мой 
» declined to grow as a cutback, and was there- 
Of course, 
fore — Hence its omission. 
I may have been unfortunate , but down to the 
which induced me to t it. One is that the 
beautiful, bronzed foliag is very rea 
na by mildew, and the other that the ~ 
stance of the petal is str 
withstand wet eir. 
ot colour and spoils the flowers. Moreover, | 
ALTE "ur з 
с ater ones аге apt pi inns it alike 
from the effects of rain and sun, which 
x 
e Yellow Rose of whic 
we are in sea arch Should keep its colour in бл 
autumn flowers as well as those of early and 
mid-summer 
THE LAST ROSE OF WINTER. 
s past I have tried to notice 
“Носы Rowe ers We que been 
n ordinarily open 
w get several on 
or | n ist: ; but 
m though the weather continues 
mild through the early part of January, the 
