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G. Bachelce. — When travelling in Greece in 1886, Professor 

 Mahaffy collected a quantity of bulbs and tubers on Mount 

 Hymettus, which he sent home to Mr. F. W. Burbidge, so well 

 known to everyone who takes an interest in choice flowers. 

 One of these roots proved to be a Snowdrop flowering in 

 October and November. Hearing of this from a mutual friend, 

 I wrote to Mr. Burbidge for information about it, and his reply 

 was accompanied by the original bulb, leaving him an offset 

 only which it had formed. This great kindness to a perfect 

 stranger was quite unexpected, and I take this opportunity of 

 expressing my gratitude to Mr. Burbidge for it, and also for 

 the many genial letters so full of valuable hints and sketches 

 with which he has favoured me from time to time. 



G. Bachelcd is of the same type as G. octobrcnsis, but the 

 flower is a little larger, and the leaves are quite a third broader, 

 and it seems to have a stronger constitution than that variety. 

 It also differs in being a week or ten days later in flowering. Is 

 this the G. Olgcz of Orphanides ? 



G. corcyrcnsis or prcecox. — This usually flowers from the 

 middle to the end of December, according to the mildness of the 

 season. It is evidently a form of G. nivalis, small in size and 

 delicate in constitution. Being the connecting link between the 

 autumn and spring flowering kinds it is valuable, and well worth 

 the extra care required in its cultivation. The late Mr. Harpur- 

 Crewe received it from the English Chaplain at Corfu. 



Mr. Max Leichtlin informs me that he has raised some 

 seedlings from G. corcyrensis which bloom a month earlier than 

 their parent, and in some of these the form of the flower is quite 

 changed, the petals being very narrow, and one and a-quarter 

 inches long. This they have maintained for two seasons. 



In October 1889, a gentleman residing in Corfu kindly sent 

 me, by sample post, some bulbs, then in flower, of a rare early 

 Snowdrop which grew in one spot only on the island. The 

 rootlets of the bulbs got dried up in transit and the flowers were 

 much withered, but I could distinguish considerable variation in 

 the size and markings of them, and in the character of the 

 foliage. A large proportion of these bulbs died, but more than 

 a dozen have given flowers this spring, but they have not bloomed 

 early, which I attribute to their trials, as they virtually made a 

 second growth last season. I think these will be quite a dif- 



