TO JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



in nursery gardens both at the Cape and in England, or, if England 

 is not suitable for all, in the Channel Islands or Scilly — where many 

 of the Cape bulbs, such as Ixias and Freesias, do even better than in 

 their native land. 



I brought or sent back a considerable number of bulbs, seeds, 

 and some plants from the various parts of Africa I have mentioned, 

 but very few from the Cape, and those were given to me from private 

 grounds. They have been grown by my brothers in England in 

 their glass-houses, and at Kew and Cambridge. Most of them are 

 at Cambridge, in the charge of Mr. Lynch, the Curator of the Botanic 

 Gardens, whose care, skill, and patience it would be difficult to over- 

 rate. 



His first success was with Chironia laxa, a pretty little plant with 

 small pointed leaves and bright pink flowers, very suitable for a 

 conservatory. He raised it from seed sent home by my brother 

 from Tembuland before I went out, and it has not only flowered, but 

 seeded abundantly. Mr. Lynch sent a plant in flower to my brother 

 at Canterbury, and one to Kew. It has done equally well at both 

 places. Numbers of young plants have been raised both from seed 

 and cuttings. It has been figured in the Kew Bulletin. 



Mr. Lynch has also grown and flowered Sanstviera fiarva, which 

 I took up in the forests near Nairobi last July. It is a really pretty 

 thing with purplish flowers, very bright shining leaves, and is of 

 a manageable size. We have several good plants. 



Another very successful thing is a tiny pink Nerine (fig. 5). It 

 would seem, structurally, to be much the same as N. filifolia, according 

 to herbarium specimens. But its growth, when alive, seems quite 

 different. It is like an alpine plant, dwarf and delicate, and grows 

 on high ground among flat slabs of rock in wet peat. I have only 

 found it twice, in two places in the Transkei about fifty miles apart. 

 It would seem to be a new species — a very pretty acquisition for a 

 conservatory, and still more so, if it were hardy enough, for a sheltered 

 rock garden. I sent a quantity of bulbs home to one of my brothers, 

 and it has blossomed and seeded plentifully in pots. 



A very large pink Gladiolus was photographed from one of my 

 drawings in the number of Country Life for February 15. My brother 

 in Tembuland has grown it in his garden. We sent seme bulbs home, 

 and they are doing well, but have not yet had time to blossom. The 

 species of Gladiolus, Watsonia, Antholiza, and Tritonia, run into one 

 another, so that it is really impossible always to define them. One 

 very common but beautiful scarlet Antholiza which I drew from plants 

 growing in Bomvanaland seemed to be a Watsonia when I found it 

 again some sixty to ninety miles off ! I should have drawn it to show 

 the difference, but had no time to sketch it with the many other things 

 found there. 



Montbretias are now called Tritonias ; but, though they may 

 belong to the same genus, they are very distinct and their 

 name may be very usefully retained. Montbretia Potlsii, one 



