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not found in the same district. I have been fortunate 

 in getting a good form of 0. Fosteri, and I find it in 

 my garden a satisfactory plant, though an exceedingly 

 slow grower. There is a very nice variety of this, 

 which I shall mention when speaking of green snow- 

 drops, which in the garden behaves itself very much 

 as G. Fosteri itself. The last, and by far the finest, of 

 the broad green-leaved snowdrops is G. Icarice. This 

 was introduced a few years ago from the island of Icaria, 

 by Mr Edward Whittall, Smyrna, a gentleman who has 

 been the means of introducing a large number of early 

 spring-flowering bulbs from the Taurus and Anti-Taurus 

 mountains (where they seem to grow in great profusion), 

 such as Scillas, Chionodoxas, Chionoscillas, Fritillarias, 

 Tulips, Croci, and many others. This G. Icarice is a 

 very handsome plant, but not a tall grower. The 

 flowers are large, and the leaves very broad, and of a 

 very brilliant green colour. It seems a good grower, 

 and thrives exceedingly well in my garden. 



I will now draw my remarks to a close with a few 



words about some of the more curious 

 -Yellow- (though many of them are very beautiful) 



spotted forms to be found in the best collections. 



Snowdrops. Among the most beautiful of this class are 



the yellow-spotted snowdrops, and these, I 

 think, will be of special interest to the members of this 

 Club from the fact, that nearly the whole of them have 

 been found in Northumberland, and within the district 

 to which the operations of the Club extend. G. latescens, 

 the first to be found, was discovered, I believe, at 

 Fowberry Tower,' or in some of the cottage gardens at 

 Chatton. There it grows in considerable quantity in 

 old grass lawns, mixed with G. nivalis (of which it is 

 undoubtedly a variety), and must have been growing 

 there for many years. The second discovery was made 

 in an old cottage garden in the village of Whittingham 

 by myself, with the assistance of Mr Joseph Oliver, at 



