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all along the forest I saw them no more. They certainly were only then 
coming into flower, as there were only three in bloom. The green leaves 
were not up, nor appearing, for I pulled up the whole plant. 
I may add that I also got a few flowers of the blue Hepatica. By the 
Inn , at Innspruck, I found a splendid dwarf toad-flax (Linaria reflex), 
with a lovely purple and rich yellow flower, the stalks and leaves of a pale 
green, rather bluish, and very much serrated. The seed of this plant, 
which I sowed on my return to Twizel House, came up beautifully; it is 
now sowing itself sparingly, and does not degenerate. 
I also found another toad-flax, the flowers of which were bright purple 
and orange (Linaria speciosct). The plant was above a foot high on the 
Dent de Yaulion—3065 feet above the level of the sea—I mean at the 
Lac de Joux. Nothing could be more splendid than this plant growing 
out of the crevice of a rock and waving gracefully, the sun shining upon 
it. I got it carefully up and set it in a little garden at Yevay, where I 
collected the seed and sent it to Twizel. It now sows itself all over the 
garden, but degenerates into every shade ; only now and then a fine deep 
purple and orange eye comes up, and we try always to have them, by 
weeding away the light ones. 
I found another toad-flax at Montmorency, bright yellow and rich 
brown, running along the ground six or eight inches :—leaves roundish ; 
and the leaves and flowers placed alternately. This was a very uncommon 
plant, as I never saw it but there, and once on the banks of the Cher, 
where it grew near the Gypsum rocks. 
March 21, 1841. 
WATERING-POT FOR LADIES, 
BY MR. BEATON, GARDENER TO SIR WILLIAM MIDDLETON, SHRUBLAND 
PARK, NEAR IPSWICH. 
One of the most teasing things that a lady can meet with in the cul¬ 
tivation of her plants, is a badly-made watering-pot, at least such is my 
own experience. To be sure, my blue apron is not much the worse for a 
daily sprinkling of water from leaky pots or spouts, and I seldom use 
gloves when I am watering; but ladies, whose clothes are not suited to 
resist wet, must be sadly annoyed when at the delightful exercise of 
watering their own favourite flowers, if their watering-pots let off a single 
drop of water except by the spout or rose. Indeed, even watering with 
an open-spout pot is not fit work for ladies ; and as they should always 
