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Spring. Our northern sun is earlier over Sentinel ridge and 
soon the first buttercups will be smiling. 
Whats new? Mother Nature does not introduce new varieties as 
regularly as other growers do, which is perhaps just as Y/ell, with so 
many good plants now all too little known. During the past summer, for 
the first tim.e, I found our white lady^s slipper, Cypripedium montanum, 
in sufficient abundance to supply all applicants. Another variety, 
C. K nightae, grows with it in one locality. I found Yfestern skunk 
cabbage and Devil ^s club in a new si-i’amp, the rare holly fern common 
under virgin v/hite pine, and Sedum Leibergii, charming indeed on its 
mossy rock-slide. All these are from wild country where I love to go. 
Please do not hesitate to send me there. 
Young Douglasia montana plants that started abundantly a year 
or two ago are now *the dollar size* so nice to move. Thrifty, young 
plants of Pentstemons, Le^visia, Erigeron, Potentilla, Sieversia and 
Phlox are available from the same area. This phlox, by the v/ay, noiv 
becomes Phlox douglasii ssp. missoulaensis Yfnerry, an unpublished 
variety. ”” 
Wood nyinph, Mbnesses uniflora, vras omitted from my last list by 
mistake. Marsilea, a tiny ferirTF^seribling a i].-loaf clover, is now 
available for the bog garden or pool*3 edge. Several additional 
pentstemons, tv/o as yet unpublished, have found their lYay into my 
herbarium of local plants of garden value, and I’/ith spidervj-ort, sand 
lily and others will appear in a later list. May I send you a copy? 
f/zo varieties of butterfly lilies, Calochortus, that I usually 
collect, failed to appear this season. THiy? I can only guess. 
Examination proved the bulbs to be all right and a normal supply may 
be expected next year. This seems to emphasize what I have often 
said, "Do not disturb native plants for at least a year if they fail 
to appear on schedule." 
Many friendly and interesting letters have come in duriug the 
year wore truly appreciated, altho sometimes tardily or inade¬ 
quately acknavledged. If you are interested in native plants, I want 
to know you and to give you every courtesy possible. I only wish you 
could know my mountains as I do and I your gardens as you do. This 
list reminds you that we are still here waiting to supply you v/ith 
good plants native to the Nortliwest, May vro havo aii least a trial 
order? If a Rose may speak frankly, for TiTestern American alpines, 
remember, 
Frank Rose, Missoula, Montana. 
