February 15, 1893.] 



Garden and Forest. 



77 



Fir. 13.— Micliclia compressa.— See page 75. 



that comes from botanical collectors' bagging a few 

 scraps of likely plants for the gardener. Professor Balfour, 

 when on a botanical visit to Socotra in 1880, sent to Kew 

 a few small tubers of this Begonia for the gardens, along 



with dried specimens for the herbarium. The result was a 

 pretty and very interesting Begonia added to the few good 

 winter-flowering species we possess for the stove, and", still 

 more important, the production by the breeder of a race of 



