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for seeding purposes was being ripened off of his well-known and 
excellent varieties Conqueror, Paragon, &c. In one house I saw 
two thousand plants of the strange Scolopendrium vulgare var. 
Kelwayi. But after all one comes back to the startling fact— 
twenty acres of Gladioli ! People make much of 12 acres of 
Roses, but that is mere child’s play to this. No wonder that a 
stately building which I saw rising up should be devoted to the 
drying of these corms, or that with pardonable pride at his success 
he should have called his house “ Gladioli Villa.”—D., Deal. 
AQUILEGIA JUCUNDA. 
This pretty species is well represented in the accompanying 
engraving, the neat rounded form of the leaflets, and the compact 
Fig. 50.—AQUILEGIA JUCUNDA. 
flowers with their short tubular petals and oval sepals, being faith¬ 
fully depicted. It was regarded by Dr. Fischer, who first sent 
seeds to the Royal Horticultural Society about thirty years ago, 
as intermediate between Aquilegia alpina and A. glandulosa, both 
of which it resembles to some extent. A. jucunda is, however, 
dwarfer than A. glandulosa, and the flowers are of a brighter blue 
tint, which is pleasantly relieved by the petals being tipped with 
white. It is hardy, and may be grown in a well-drained border 
of light soil, where it can be protected from excessive rains, which 
prove very injurious to it. Plants also succeed well on the rockery, 
where they must be freely supplied with water whilst growing, 
or they will not flower satisfactorily. The species is native of 
mountainous districts in Siberia.— R. 
The Wood Vetch.—I have a word or two to say in favour of 
Vicia sylvatica as a border plant. A specimen in my garden is in 
