January 26, 1901. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
339 
OUTRAMS 
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THE CHRYSANTHEMUM RUST, 
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CHRYSANTHEMUM NEWS. 
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H. J. JONES’ PORTFOLIO OF NEW CHRYSANTHEMUMS FOR 1901. 
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H. JT. JONES’ CATALOGUE 
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"Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatss 
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Edited by J. FRASER. F.L.S. 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 26th, iqot. 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENT. 
Tuesday, January zgth.-Royal Horticultural Society- 
Committees Meet. 
Ryecroft Nursery, Hither Green , LEWISHAM. 
HAT COULD A GARDENER DO IN ICE¬ 
LAND ?—Occasionally one hears or 
reads of Iceland being a battlefield of fire 
and ice, and to a certain extent this is true, 
for it is wholly of volcanic origin, and many 
of its mountains, which are nearly 2,000 ft. 
higher than any in the British Lies, are 
covered with perpetual snow and ice for the 
greater portion of their height from the top 
downwards, and extensive ice fields keep 
slipping down almost to sea level. Under 
such conditions it might be said that the 
gardener could do nothing; but the above 
description applies chiefly to the southern 
portion of the island, which, paradoxical as 
it may seem, is less favourable to vegetation 
than the northern portion of the island. Its 
area is somewhat larger than that of Ireland, 
and while it lies about 600 miles to the 
west of Norway, and about the same dis¬ 
tance from the north of Scotland, it comes 
within 60 miles of the coast of Greenland. 
One would naturally conclude that the 
southern coast of Iceland should be the 
warmer, but the contrary is the case owing 
to the high mountains above mentioned and 
their physical effects upon the climate of 
those regions. The shores are washed by 
the Gulf Stream, particularly the western 
and northern, so that what might otherwise 
be a rigorous climate, owing to its northern 
latitude, is tempered by the genial waters 
of a torrid clime before they have finally 
parted with their warmth. One of the most 
northerly of its headlands lies a little to the 
north of the Arctic circle, yet only about 
three species of the flora of the island are 
decidedly Arctic. What is more striking, 
at a computation of its flora not so many 
years ago only 62 species had been gathered 
or seen in it which do not grow in the 
British Isles, and this out of 467 flowering 
plants, and Ferns known to inhabit it, and 
most of them being found in Scandinavia. 
Nothwithstanding the distance of the island 
from our shores its flora is decidedly 
European. 
The country has been peopled by 
Europeans since A.D. 874, when the 
Northmen took possession of it, that is, 
soon after the Vikings or Danish pirates 
landed on our shores, more intent upon 
plunder than colonisation. They in fact 
made a landing on the east coast of Eng¬ 
land in 787 and on the Scottish shores in 
839. When these Northmen landed in 
Iceland it is believed that woods were more 
extensive than was the case down till quite 
recent times. As far as is known they did 
not exceed 10 ft. to 12 ft. in height though 
the stumps of those that had been cut down 
by the inhabitants often measured 2 ft. in 
diameter, so that the trees or woods repre- 
ssnted asturdy but stunted vegetation, which 
at least till recently consisted of low bushes 
of Birch and Willow. The latter are a nfined 
to about eighteen species of dwarf bushes, 
many of them hardly deserving any 
other name than herbs, though really 
representing the dwarfest forms of Euro- 
