MODERN GARDENING 
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P°PPy (•Meconopsis integrifolia). Numberless beautiful plants 
were seen in the same district—a perfect paradise of flowers. 
New species of Spiraea, Anemone, Buddleia, Abelia, Pedicularis, 
Senecio, Anemone, Primula, Polygala, etc., abounded. Another 
yet more arduous journey was made to Sungpan by Mr. E. H. 
Wilson a few months later, and again the finding of new species 
rewarded this intrepid and highly successful collector. The 
home of the Meconopsis integvifolia was reached in June, 1903. 
The next spring visitors to the “ Temple Showwere thrilled 
by the sight of this beauteous flower, and the seeds were dis¬ 
tributed in September, 1904, so rapidly can the treasures of an 
almost unexplored country be brought nowadays to an English 
garden. 
From Africa also new flowers are still constantly arriving. 
The West Coast, Nigeria, and Liberia have furnished their 
share, and the brilliant Kalankoe from Somaliland repre¬ 
sents the drier East. The scarlet Gerbera Jamesoni , 2 now 
known as the “ Transvaal Daisy/’ was not grown in this 
country before the late war. Only dwellers in South Africa 
were familiar with the “ Barberton Daisy,” as it was called, 
from the place in which it was first discovered. 3 Now not only 
the pure flame-coloured Daisy, but numerous garden hybrids, 
are commonly met with in England. Notwithstanding the 
increased knowledge of African plants, only about ten per cent, 
have been introduced, although a large number are well worth 
cultivation. 4 
1 The exhibition of the Royal Horticultural Society, held in the 
Temple Gardens. 
2 Called after R. Jameson, a Natal botanist. 
3 It is interesting to know that the wife of Mr. Barber, the founder 
01 the town (nee Bowker), was a naturalist and collector, and she 
found the lovely Cyrtanthus sanguined on the site of Barberton, when 
she first camped there with her husband. 
4 When travelling with my husband in South Africa just before the 
war, and until January, 1900, we collected in Rhodesia for Kew, and 
were successful in finding no less than forty new species, some of which 
would be well suited for culture in England, but very few have as yet 
been grown here. I have now been able to hand over to Messrs. Sander 
a pretty Gloriosa lutea, and Hcemanthus Cecilce has flowered in this 
country, but many, such as Kcempferia Cecilce , Pavetta Cecilice, or 
Abutilon Cecili, have not yet been imported at all. 
