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wiry hair-like stems, which serve to set off I 
other flowers, or may be dried slowly in the ! 
shade for winter bouquets. The plant is hardy | 
and may be increased from seed or from root- | 
division in spring. It is a good plan to raise j 
a few plants each year, for they do not flower i 
freely until two or three years old, and old 
plants, after making a great rootstock, often 
go off suddenly and create a blank. Where 
much cut blo'om is wanted it ispossible to hasten 
a few plants by putting them in sunny and 
sheltered positions, or where they can be pro- 
tected by glass-lights for awhile in spring. In 
some soils it becomes almost too vigorous for 
the border and should then be planted on warm 
banks and raised places of the wild-garden. 
Two garden varieties are now grown, coni- 
pacta being a dwarf form with smaller flov/ers, 
and JJore p/eno^i double-flowered form in which 
the tiny rosettes of pure-white are fully as 
graceful in effect and far more lasting. 
G. perfo/iata. — A plant from the south-west 
of Europe, coming very near pa?iicu/ata but of 
slightly dwarfer habit, leaves that partially 
clasp the stem, and rosy-white flowers. It suc- 
ceeds well even in town gardens. Syn. G. 
scorzonerifolia. 
G. prostrata. — A lovely little evergreen 
trailer with grey-green foliage and white or 
pale pink flowers in loosely-branching heads 
throughoutthesummerandautumn. It thrives 
in light soil and full sun, and is seen at its best 
amongstones in the rock-garden. Easily raised 
from seed, but with difficulty from cuttings or 
division. Central Asia. G. repens often does 
duty for prostrata in gardens. 
G. Raddeana. — A perennial of very dwarf 
tufted habit, with small crowded leaves and 
pale rosy flowers which are lined with darker 
stripes. Persia. 
G.repens. — A little creeping perennial whose 
trailing stems rise erect at the tips, bearing 
narrow and sharp-pointed leaves and rather 
large flowers of white or pale pink which are 
rather large but not numerous. A pretty little 
plant for the rock-garden growing about 6 
inches high. Mountains of Europe. An im- 
proved form of stronger growth with stems of 
about a foot high, larger flowers, and a very 
continuous bloomer, is grown under the name 
of repens monstrosa. 
G. Rokejeka. — A new and strong-growing 
plant of 3 feet, with spreading heads of rosy- 
white flowers coming late in summer. The 
stems are pretty for cutting but not quite so 
graceful, from the larger size of the flowers. 
G. Steveni. — A perennial kind from the 
Caucasus, of dwarfer growth than pafiiculata^ 
and earlier in flower. The stems and foliage 
are of pale grey-green, of spreading habit, with 
leaves narrow and keeled ; flowers white and 
larger than in paniculata^ but carried in silvery 
heads that are smaller and denser. B. 
THE NEW FORSYTHIA (F, euro- 
pceci) . 
1 HIS new shrub has recently flowered 
at Kew for the first time, proving itself 
I fully as distinct from the old kinds as 
i the published descriptions led us to ex- 
i pect. Indeed, we have it from Mr. W. 
I y. Bean that the authorities at Kew 
I are fully satisfied as to its being a true 
species, coming near F, vij^idissima in 
its flowers but distinct in habit and 
foliage, and while the new kind would 
not appear to be very different in general 
effect, it is so interesting a plant that 
most lovers of hardy flowering shrubs 
[ will wish to add it to their collections. 
It had already flowered in America last 
I year, from seed sent out by the late Mr. 
Thompson of Ipswich some four or five 
years ago. It has proved itself fully 
hardy even in the severe winters of the 
I northern States, and is described as a 
strong, erect shrub of rapid growth, 
with bright green leaves and large nearly 
\ stemless flowers of deep sulphur-yellow, 
I opening from early in April. 
From the Mitteihcngen derDeictscheft 
De7idrologischen Gesellschaft we take 
! an account of this interesting plant. 
It appears at first sight as unlikely that 
in Europe of to-day, ransacked from 
