March 30, 1912. 



THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



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2ft. high, and forms clumps 1ft. to 3ft. in 

 diameter. Here it is found from 6in. to 

 9in. high. Its leaves are usually below half 

 an inch in lengthy and they are of the 

 familial linear-oblong outline. The cam- 

 panulat-e flowers are borne 10 or 12 together 

 in terminal heads, the colour being a j^leas- 

 ing rose or pale red. 



B. srianduliflorus. 



It is doubtful whether this species is in 

 cultivation in this country. In America it 

 occurs from Oregon to Alaska, Howell de- 

 scribing it as growing on rocky banks and 

 cliffs near i^erpetual snow. Tlie branches 

 are rather stiff, 3 to 12 inches high, bearing 

 small leaves scarcely half an inch long. The 

 young wood, flower stalks, and calyx lobes 



Siberia^ North China, Japan, North from six to nine inches high, it bears flat- 

 Europe, and has been collected in Perth- 

 shire in Scotland. It forms a dwarf shrub. 



4 to 6 inches h'gli^ with small linear-oblong 

 leaves one quarter to a third of an inch 

 longj and urn-shaped flowers lx)rne several 

 together in terminal heads. An illustration 

 of the plant is given in Brown and Britton's 

 Flora of the Northern States and 

 Canada," p. 565, under the name of Phyllo- 

 doce coerulea. 



From this it might be in- 

 ferred that the flowers are blue. 

 howe\'er 



This, 



is not usually the case, for, al- 

 though forms witli bluish flow 

 times met with 



are some- 

 , more familiar shades are 

 rosy purple and reildish-purple. The 



above-mentioned work refers to its distribu- 

 tion upon the 



summits of the 



higher 



.re intensely hairy, by which means it is mountains of Maine and New Hampshire, 

 easily distinguished from other kinds. Its Mount Albert, Quebec, Labrador, through 



tened leaves nearly an inch long, and rosy- 

 pink flowej-s upwards of half an inch in 

 diameter. Reference is made to its dislike 

 of bright sun and a dry atmospin?rc. the 

 north side of a wall or a cool shady liame 

 being recommend<M:l as the most suitable 

 position for its well-being. After the lapse 

 of 60 years no better advice can be advanced 

 for the successful cultivation of this charm- 

 ing little shrub. There does not a])pear to 

 be any large stock of plants in the country^ 

 for propagation is slow, layering in this case 

 being found to be more satisfactory than 

 cuttings. W. Dallisiore. 



A Good Dry<weather 



table. — The note on the New 

 spinach (Tetragfonia expansa), pa^c 174, 

 should serve to direct attention to this most 



Zealand 



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, DELPHINIUMS, AND PINKS AT THE CLOSE, BUKCOT 



"in-shaped flowers differ in colour from Arctic America to Alaska 



tnase^ot other species, for they are of a yel- Europe, and Asia, 

 lowish shade. ^ 



North Alpine 

 It is one of the most 



In mv suburban cfarden 



t*> tlic .«iutli. 



This 

 Don^ 



phiekl 



welini. 



was originally described 

 in the '-Edinburgh New 

 Journal." xvii. (July, 1834) 



by G. 

 Philoso- 



P 



^u. aerbarium specimens show it as a 

 ^my prostrate-growing, heath-like shrub 

 "itn leaves scarcely more than an eighth of 

 an mch long, with ciliated margins, and 



carmg short terminal racemes of small red 

 powers. Loudon refers to it as being found 



overing extensive areas with a close mass 

 the manner of Wild Thyme. It is a 



'jtu> of Kamtschatka and the adjaoent 



s and,^ and of Siberia. It i« doubtful 

 ^.iiether it is in cultivation in this country. 



B. ta.xif olius. 



tion^'l ^^^'^^^'^ ^'^^'y distribu- 



^or It IS met with in North America, 



easily obtained species. 



B. aleuticus. 



This is a little-known American species 

 with small serrate leaves up to half an inch 

 long, and small rosy flowers, resembling, 

 but smaller than, those of B. taxifolia. 



B. erectus. 



This pretty little plant is a garden hybrid 

 between Bryanthus empetriformis and 

 Rhodothamnus Chamnecistns. An early 

 description of it appeared in Lindley and 

 Paxton's Flower Garden." i, p. 97. Fig. 

 19. According to this description, the 

 plant was orig'nally obtained hy Mv. C'lui- 

 ningham, of Comley Bank Nursery. F/lin- 

 burgh. Although one parent is there given 

 as B, taxifolius, a douht is c;ist as to its 

 being correct, and the plant now considere<l 

 to be the parent is suggested. Growing 



valuable vegetable, 

 wh icli slopes away slia rpl y 

 practically all vegetables were burnt up dur- 

 ing the intense heat and drought of last 

 summer. This New Zealand spinach proved 

 quite the exception, and, though the 

 space allotted to it was limited, we 

 were able to pick a good dish therefrom 

 two or three times a week during the entire 

 summer. As the neighbouring gardens 

 yielded no vegetables of any account, the 

 solution to grow New Zealand spinach an- 

 other year was almost universal owing to 

 my success in the matter. Seeds were sown 

 in shallow drills towards the end of April, 

 and the plants thinned out well, for, as 

 stated by your correspondent *' C./' it re- 

 quires, from its trailing habit, plenty of room 

 to develo]). During the long-continued 

 drouglit the hoe was freclv used, jind the 

 plants were occasionally given a soaking of 

 water. In a wet season, owinsf to- other 

 vegetables being available, the New Zealand 

 spinach does not assert itself. — S. W. 



