Octobei- 8, 1904. 
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Views and Reviews. 
Glasgow Botanic Gardens. ^ 
The beginning of September may not be 
the best time to see gardens in, Glasgow in 
all their freshness of June beauty, but never¬ 
theless flowers there were in abundance both 
outside and under glass. The trees were not 
particularly happy, judging by the foliage, 
which may be due to a variety of causes, but 
chiefly to the smoke of Glasgow and tlieir 
exposed situation on the high grounds of 
Keivinside. 
The herbaceous borders, students’ garden, 
rock gardens and other plantations of hardy 
subjects were gay with autumn flowering 
subjects, while some of those which we are 
accustomed to see in summer about London 
were still in bloom here as elsewhere in 
Scotland. The bedding subjects were also as 
floriferous as they might have been at any 
other time. Very conspicuous were several 
Lobelias, including the scarlet L. splendens, 
L. Firefly, and L. Queen Victoria. We 
noted also L. rosea, having rose flowers 
tinted with scarlet and having broad green 
leaves, so that it is evidently closely allied 
i to L. cardinalis. Some of the plants occupy- 
ing the long border stretching up the hill¬ 
side included Hollyhocks, Solidagos, Ueliop- 
sis, Echinops I’itro, E. ruthenicus, Sun¬ 
flowers, Veronicas, Galegas, Lysimachia 
ciliata, Eryngium planum, Bupthalmum 
speeiosum, which was flowering late, and 
various subjects of that character. 
An uncommon albino was Serratula tinc- 
toria alba, a white-flowered form of a British 
/ plant that is very scarce in gardens; indeed, 
? we do not remember having seen it before. 
f The students’ garden is arranged on thei 
( natural system- and consists of long beds 4 ft. 
< to 5 ft. wide. In passing through these, we 
s noticed a number of interesting specimens,, 
) including Erodium trichoma,naefo,burn, still 
j flowering very freely, and making a first- 
5 class subject for the rock garden. Galega 
> orientalis, which usually flowers early in the 
> season, was here flowering splendidly for the 
second time. Useful border plants also are 
< Liatris spicata and Polygonum vaccinia,efo- 
5 lium, the latter making a first-class autumn- 
< flowering subject for the rock garden or other 
< beds in which stones are used, so as to 
s elevate the flowers above the surroundings. 
^ Strange to say, the Hypericums do not suc¬ 
ceed well at Glasgow; possibly the smoke 
luay affect them, but large numbers of them 
are grown at London and succeed admirably. 
It may be that the chemical impurities in 
the atmosphere of Glasgow have a telling 
effect upon this class of plants. A very 
singular plantain in the collection had a 
bright green, very much branched, inflores¬ 
cence instead of the usual spike. We refer 
to Plantago major monstrosa. 
The rock garden is not very extensive, but 
it occupies rather a deep hollow iu the 
grounds, which has the effect of furnishing a 
variety of aspects and making the place 
much more secluded than it would be on the 
higher grounds. Stones have been used in 
the building of it, and the dripping well is, 
one of the more striking attempts at build¬ 
ing something out of the usual run as seen 
ini rockeries. On the high banks we noted 
Helianthus mollis, recently brought into 
prominence after having been neglected. 
Gentiana, septemfida and Cytisus schipkaen- 
sisi bad been flowering for some time, and 
were still showy. Antirrhinum Asarina has 
large lemon flowers and grey leaves, but is 
not a common species. Campanula, pusilla 
was still floriferous, though in the south it 
flowered many months ago. The alpine 
Viola biflora succeeds admirably here, but 
blooms' in spring or early summer like a large 
proportion of truly alpine species. 
Wo noted what may be considered a 
natural adaptation—what was a few years 
ago a live pond may now for all practical 
purposes be regarded as a bog, occupied over 
the whole area by bog plants. The latter 
had at one time been planted round the 
margin of the pond, which was shallow round 
the edges, gradually deepening to the centre. 
The more rampant of the plants in a few 
years took possession of the whole pond, 
partly filling it up and leaving little of the 
water to be seen. Amongst the more 
notable of these bog plants were T'vpha an- 
gustifolia,, Ranunculus Lingua, the Mare’s 
Tail, Bog Bean, Butomns umbeilatus, Ly¬ 
simachia thyrsiflora and Mimulu® luteus. 
The Lysimachia or Loosestrife is a, native 
plant, though veiy rare, and we have never 
seen it growing in such luxuriance as here. 
Evidently a, shallow pond or bog is a, more 
suitable place for it than to be grown in, pots 
and plunged in deep water. The Mimulus 
offers no surprise, as it has naturalised itself 
in a, large number of the Scotch counties, 
although well known to have been originally 
introduced from North America. On the 
edges of the hog is a large mass of the very 
distinct Saxifraga peltata with its huge. 
