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colour. The following kinds are now 
recognised : — 
Beresowski's Trumpet Flower {Incarvillea 
Beresowski). — This plant resembles the better 
known /. De/avayi, nor is it yet clear whether 
it should not be regarded as one of its forms. 
It has the same fleshy tap-root and pinnate 
foliage, with clusters of nine or ten purplish 
crimson flowers, but upon stems much shorter 
than in M. Delavay's kind. Thibet and 
Western China. 
Bonvalot's Trumpet Flower (/. Bonva- 
loti). — This new plant from the same region 
is like a small form of /. compacta, with very 
dwarf growth, short leaves, and rather smaller 
flowers of similar colour. 
Dwarf Trumpet Flower [I. compacta). — 
A hardy plant from North-west China, intro- 
duced in 1880, but still rare in gardens. It 
is a shy bloomer, bearing upon short stalks, 
hardly rising above the leaves, clusters of deep 
pink flowers, funnel-shaped, and about 2^ 
inches long. It is found in forms with stalks 
of various lengths, but is commonest of com- 
pact habit. 
Delavay's Trumpet Flower (/. De/a- 
vayi). — This fine plant was found growing 
in the mountain pastures of Yunnan, at a 
height of from 6,000 to 10,000 feet, by a 
French missionary in Northern China, who 
sent seeds of it to Messrs. Vilmorin. A few 
years later it was also found growing with 
several other kinds in Western China and on 
the frontiers of Thibet, by Prince Henry of 
Orleans ; its range is therefore wide. It was 
first flowered by Messrs. Vilmorin in 1892, 
and has since found its way into many gardens, 
where it has shown its value as a vigorous 
perennial, flowering in the second year from 
seed sown in April. The young plants some- 
times bloom in the first autumn, but mostly 
not before the following June, when a few 
rosy or bright pink flowers with a tinge of 
yellow in the throat appear in a cluster at the 
end of a stout stalk, lasting in beauty for 
about three weeks. The dark green leaves 
vary in length, but often reach 2 feet long, 
and are finely cut, fleshy, and of a pecuHar 
odour when handled. When these die away, 
a winter covering of dry leaves is enough in 
most gardens, and the plant will be stronger 
and bloom earlier than when potted for the 
winter. In cold districts the fleshy root may 
be lifted and stored like a Dahlia, but must 
be covered with soil and not allowed to dry. 
Well planted, the tubers gain force each season, 
forming at last masses of five or six flower- 
stems of about a yard high, with ten to fifteen 
trumpet-shaped flowers in a cluster, the lower 
ones drooping loosely from the central mass. 
Such old plants are fine objects during several 
weeks in early summer, and by planting a few 
in a place which is shaded (but not overhung), 
they will bloom later and lengthen the season 
of beauty. Early plants do well in light, free 
soil at the foot of a sunny wall, their crowns 
covered to a depth of 2 or 3 inches. They 
may also be grown in pots or in the green- 
house border, but are less fine. It has now 
been proved hardy in so many places all over 
the British Isles that there is small risk of its 
loss save in very cold and wet gardens, while 
it is so easily raised from seed that it can now 
behadcheaply and planted in boldmasses. One 
peculiarity is that after flowering freely the 
roots will sometimes remain dormant for a 
whole year, but if left alone they seldom fail to 
start as strongly as ever after'their lengthened 
rest. A variety sent out from the Musee of 
Paris is said to flower a little earlier in the 
season. 
Vilmorin's Trumpet Flower (/. grandi- 
jiord). — This is the finest species yet intro- 
duced, with large flowers of rich and pleasing 
colour, as described by Mr. Gumbleton of Bel- 
grove, Queenstown — perhaps the only gentle- 
man who has yet flowered it in the open air. 
It is still a very scarce plant, but being a 
native of Northern China it is likely to be 
hardy in sandy soils, and is sure of a place 
in gardens when better known and more 
easily obtainable. It was found by Prince 
Henry of Orleans in 1 890; but not until seven 
years later did plants flower in the garden of 
Maurice Vilmorin, and in the following year 
at Kew. Its flowers are larger than those of /. 
Delavayi, and the habit of the plant is dwarfer, 
with shorter leaves and rounded leaflets, while 
it blooms about a fortnight earlier. Its root, 
though large and fleshy, is less tuberous, 
throwing a scanty rosette of leaves rather more 
