^ocietp ^oteiS, 
R. DISCOLOR (three varieties with green, pink and violet leaf stalks), R. 
SUTCHUENENSE, R. FORTUNEI,* R. LACTEUM, R. FICTOLACTEUM, R. INSIGNE, 
R. TALIENSE, R. BRACTEATUM, R. LONGESQUAMATUM, R. ADENOGYNUM, R. 
BRACHYCARPUM, R. AMBIGUUM,* R. CONCINNUM,* R. STRIGILLOSUM,* R. 
PACHYTRICHUM, R. H^MATOCHEILON,* R. IRRORATUM, R. H^MATODES, R. 
HYPOGLAUCUM, R. FLORIBUNDUM, R. BrETTII, R. YANTHINUM LIPIDANTHUM, 
R. Przewalskii, R. Pratii, R. coombense, R. Davidsonianum, R. micranthum 
R. Davidii,* R. argyrophyllum, R. Souliei,* R. Ririei, R. yunnanense, 
R. LUTESCENS,* R. Harrovianum,* R. parvifolium,* R. racemosum,* R. 
MOUPiNENSE,* R. INTRICATUM,* and a number of unnamed species from Wilson’s 
and Forrest’s seed, for which I am indebted to Professor Bayley Balfour. 
A number of the choicer hybrids are also doing well. If seems difi&cult to get 
the right sort of R. “ Nobleanum.” All that I have behave like dwarfs, and 
it is hard to believe they can ever reach the stature of the old plants found in 
neighbouring gardens, though I can detect no difference in leaf or flower. Those 
that grow with most vigour at Pollok are of the rose-coloured variety with long 
twisted leaves, bought under the name of R. “ Nobleanum venustum.” R. 
“ Kewense ” grows well, but has not yet flowered. R. “ Luscombianum ” 
flowers freely. We used its pollen to fertilize a plant of R. Edgeworthii in the 
greenhouse. Most of the seedlings take after the delicate parent, but two have 
hardier looking leaves. The only other cross I have made is between 
R. Smirnowii and a plant of R. arboreum which happened to flower late after 
being moved. 
The late-flowering Waterer hybrids are grown on each side of a long grass 
walk in part of the grounds used as a public park. Singly these hybrids are 
beautiful things, but here too many are in sight at once. The result in June 
extorts admiration for a few moments till one is overcome by the sense of repletion 
which seems almost inseparable from these displays—so difiicult is it to plant in 
moderation things so easy and so cheap. The dell at Kew suggests a remedy. 
Its large group of R. “ Nobleanum ” is one of its happiest features—welcome 
in mild springs for its solitary splendour, no less welcome in summer as a foil to 
the later glories. R. “ Russellianum ” may serve the same purpose and that 
fine old arboreum hybrid which Mr. Millais describes under the same name at 
Galloway House, though it is certainly not the same thing. Sir Herbert Maxwell 
calls the latter R. “ Knightii.” No doubt the time will soon come when hybrids 
of R. DISCOLOR and R. auriculatum will supply further foils for such walks and 
prolong their beauty into August. But it is difficult to reform what has been 
begun on wrong lines. Near by there is a sheltered valley where I had hoped to 
gather the choicer hybrids on a northern slope and avoid this vulgar extravagance. 
The war put a stop to that project. Some day, perhaps. 
J. S. M. 
January, 1918. 
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