304 THE 
GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
I have twice found in the neighbourhood of Bastia, 
hio a height of from 3 to 3i feet, bearing from ten 
OWers whorls. The St. 
I aches 
im ге тенк hub, e ерат а Чың bulb fidow 
the point of ascens I obtained a good supply of 
bulbs, E I eme distributed to those interested in 
that cultivation will soon decide the 
‘ows 
is one of the m 
with. ae M TUA much larger than those of its ‘ally, 
In Hos afternoon of the 13th I returned on foot to 
e Col di Tenda, and slept at the 
ain ostentatiously styled the P" 
a dirty stable on the ground floor 
Col, and occur in the MI on both sides ue the 
а previo 
P ‘Allionii below the village of Te nda, 
the morning of the 14th I started from the Col 
di Tenda on foot to Li and from thence by 
vid Turin; I reached 
Milan soon after m 
On July 1 15 I left Milan for Desinzano, on the Lake 
of Garda, at 5 A.M., whence I started for Riva, at the 
ofthe Italian lakes, and only about 
the sea level—wide, with flat um " = southern 
‚ grad narrowing up towards tween 
steep mountain chains. Monte Baldo, 2m the greater 
of its 1 its eastern boundary, with a 
monotonous dip-slope of from 6000 to 7000 feet 
Ф 
p 
o 
running straight down into = lake, апі contrasti 
with the high and a wet dore; VE 
I— the upturned ed of 1 the strata to the niake, 
The water is evidently sustained at i "aieo 
ЕЕЕ 
AS souther erin m lain, bui 
as its bottom is much inc Жыш че oan Жы its т 
must be either a rock-basin or submerged Жу 
saw water so full of fish, ey barbel, 
n of he, hotel 
also 
several marine species, t the sardine, , probably 
left behind when the lake- an of t 
sea, at the time of the ber vds Бет, 
the mbardy plain. mo ten y culti- 
about 2 feet square, AE a rough 
timber framework, ы cedi which e thrown 
frost. Some f these open co Conservator 
of immense extent, ed form important fe 
e lake, looking at a шше like large 
towns or deu of factories. 
Islept at Riva on the иу, and on the morning of 
ad 
the 16th ascended to Pieve di Ledro, where I h 
the good fitere to meet with Mr. and Mrs, Churchill 
The road from 1 vertical 
ier the p Bur 1400 feet; grim an 
nnde pode Ponal to the pretty lake of Ledro, 
Moehringia Ponze was abundant on 
Riva, but I had not m portuni: "or plant col- 
lecting, as it was raining h the morning. I 
the oon I took a short walk round the Lake of 
Ledro with Mr. Churchill, but we found nothing o 
n interest, excepting an Epipactis 
urchill) allied to latifolia but certainly 
and a non-bulbiferous Orange Lily, with the habit о 
Zi 
forms from the Tyrol, &c, 
July 17 I devoted to Monte Tombea ogee ng 
Guardia of the Austri 
down the Val Am iin 
Garibaldi 
: our 
LS TERES тое а ла 
torrents. Aquilegia and 
Phyteuma comosum were кучу, and higher up I 
obtained Aguilegia ms Senecio nemorensis, bass 
baldensis, and a pretty Allium, allied t 
natum. P:derota Bonarota was also Mesi ой y 
iff sides 
After getting out of the gorge of the Val Lorina : 
ascended over some alpine meadows and through 
Pine forest to the foot of Monte Tombea, and dli 
a steep but easy climb obtained nearly all the plants 
for which the mountain is so famous. Primula spec- 
tabilis is widely distributed above an altitude of 5500 
eet. Silene пареа, with its sumptuous 
flowers just ex was sparingly scattered over 
the mountain from єл. E lttude of 5500 feet poeta to 
thesummit. Of Saxifraga tombeana I found butasingle 
= 
esee a village about 6 miles lower down the 
< 
— 
Condé о, Fuly 21.—Left Condino at 2 д x d 
dila für Brescia vid the Lake of Idro, 
graminifolia 
Tellina to 
reached at 4 P я 
— at the Лэ? hap hag ( 5720 feet above the sea), 
where two nights. uly 23 I made an 
specimen, on a loose block, at an altitude of about ae avia glacier, for the Purpose of 
6000 feet. I gathered S. "arachnoid ost те- | obtaining Primula glutinosa, which Mr. Ball inform: 
arkable annual species, the whole plant covered | me here reaches its western I found it in the 
with fluffy down, in two hree places, but always eatest profusion, generally in wet places, at the foot 
der dry rocks, protected from the direct rainfall. | of the sn 1 It is one of the most beautiful of 
Daphne rupes ea undant near the summit of rimulas, here and there forming complete sheets of 
mountain, on cliffs, at an altitude of from rich purple. I also found P. cenensis in profusion 
to 6500 feet. side. Bertolonii and Viola hetero- | from 6500 to nearly 8000 — enecio carniolicus, 
lla on screes at the foot of the higher cliffs, at a Soldanella minima, Ranu ialis, Woodsia - 
— of about feet, Dentaria, said alpina (abundant), and a b of other alpine plants, 
ybrid between D. digitata a and D. pinnata, уу was pouring with rain without intermission the 
ao алім towards the upper part of the moun whole of the day, till 6 P.M., when it cleared up after 
in i -west сва of the Tyrol seems to | a fresh fall of snow, which reached down to e upper 
be he headquarters of Primulas, and I obtained wies limit of the Pine forests, The exact line of demarca. 
IE: = rchill much valuable information as to loc tion between the upper limit of the Pines and the f 
ities, &c., but 
Primulas, which heretofore I had not believed i in, but 
eriam ec rs a ndi. 
ermediate charact 
hat there are 
rms of european Primulas that are 
clearly Diese: Reig as hybrids, 
e di Ledro, Fuly 18, —-І rested here nearly rw 
nm of the day, жиб in the afternoon starte 
e di — vid са Val Ampola, Storo, ай 
Co sadi no, arriving at went to bed at eight, in 
anticipation of the хани ошма excursion I hav 
e 
my 
long strath at an altitude of 
us were 
d Streptopus pope 
At 6 A.M. we turned out 
Pine 
rake, Higher up in the Pine forest I observed in 
several pen the beat ystopteris montana, The 
last part o very steep by a zigzag path 
ascent 
ок de forest, ohik brought us at a height of 
between and 7000 feet to an open amphitheatre 
surrounded by white cliffs of soft fine-grained san 
уте containing a good deal o careous жаш: 
8.30 A.M. I „т for the чаена known 
a M orms a sort of base tö the 
higher point of th the Cima del Frati. The soft white 
k w ^ uem 
sunse e scenery hate was grand 
magnificent Pine forest, with a lofty range of cliffs n 
the left and the deep Val di Daoni to the right, ie 
side intersected with erem lateral cafions runnin 
right up to the higher cliff-boundary, and fringed with 
immense Spruce re ome 
again at the 
dawn of day and reached Pieve di Buono = 4. asm 
the morning of the 2oth, alk 30 
and twenty-five hours’ absence, 
Pieve di Buono, July 20.—Went to bed 
day, and after арор my римин at Е 
that the upward range of the Pines is restricted b by 7 | 
lowest limit of summer frost, which would cut back - 
t nder growing I have noticed in 
garden that the young shoots of Pines are very li 
to injury by late spring frosts. 
t to Bornio, and thence 
down the Val Tellina to Tirano, dn I fe of 
to Ey North, entering Switzerland wid La Prese | 
and Poschiavo, across the Bernin (6780 feet, 
Primula viscosa and P, inte ifolia most abundant), 
and the Engadine to the Albul (7579 feet), 
where I stopped a night at the Weissenstein Hotel 
(6824 feet) on the north side—a capital centre for a 
botanist, ges Du сола considering the 
nature of the accommo 
Pri are most dd dant all over the Pass, 
especially viscosa, integrifolia, м foli 
id t 
— between "the alleged parents. It is scat- 
es of a few 
parents, 
aid latifolia less requently, but dinyana never occurs 
I also 
except а proximity to latifolia, observed - 
Androsace ch unc parnassifolius, 
and D gere alpines. I hope at some future time - 
spend a week in thoroughly exploring the Albula. 
The last week in June would t 
Primulas. I left the знада for Chur on July 26, 
and > eached London on the 28th. 
cending from the е region above Bormio, - 
done to the high watershed of the Stelvio, Iwasmuch - 
struck with the fact that pus species, y the 
the coast you 
alpine vegetation at a lower ovat -— = the centre 
* aware 
has ever been noticed, nor do I see ys it can be 
explained, -— > — it will hold good the test of 
careful observ: 
As an 
British Isles such plants as Gentiana verna, D 
octopetala, Lychnis al oes Cystopteris 
Woodsia alpina, &c., esi tho 5 d feet lower 
than in the deme here there are ter mountat 
and m further removed from thè 
coast. Dilerences of of latitude and climate ar e certainly 4 
insufficient to low range of altitude 
alpine species. ak us. Geo. Maw, F.L.S., 
Hall, T ina eter to Dr. Hooker. 
WONDERFUL PLANTS. 
gardeners and lovers of flowers by unscrupulous and 
knowing fraternity would form a 
E er in the history of gardening, when 
ever that shall be written with à 
completeness worthy of the subject. A chapter, - 
indeed, will hardly suffice, for, sad as it may appe? — 
plants seem to. offer special temptations and facilities : 
to the swindling crew. 
hi 
ur o 
io: is ехо нер зарна) ty exhibited 
(SEPTEMBER 28, t8yg, — 
—A clear [we day; 
er range of altitude the - 
: that the - 
region near - 
es of alpine and sub- - 
illu aration of what I mean, you get inte | 
Benthall | 
from time to time testified 4 
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