: Seek, 
R. vaccinoides. At elevations of 12,000 ft. in its native Tibet. This 
plant is an epiphyte on trees and rocks. In lowland countries it 
thrives on acid soil; a small shrub with small smooth leaves and 
small lilac pink or white tinged with pink. $1.50. 
x xxxR. Williamsianum. Said to grow to 4 ft. Our form is, however, 
perfectly prostrate. It is beautiful at any time of the year with oval 
heart-shaped leaves which in early spring are suffused with bronzy — 
green color. The flower is bell-shaped, 214 in. wide, waxy crimson ~ 
in bud and maturing to apple-blossom-pink. W. Szechuen, Intro- ~ 
duced by E. H. Wilson 1908. $1.25-$2.50. t 
x x x R. xanthocodon. A tall shrub with blue-green oval leaves; yellow- 
green bell-shaped flowers. $2.00. 
x xx xR. yunnanense. A most useful plant to drape over a wall, cover 
a bank, to use as foreground planting or to take an important posi- 
tion in the rock garden. Variable in habit, growing erect or sprawl- 
ing, depending on whether it started life in sun or shade. Flowers © 
creamy-white, spotted with cinnabar—a thrilling sight in bloom. 
W. China. Introduced by Jean M. Delavay 1889. $2.50. +13% 
x R. zaleucum. Tree or shrub. Flowers pale white or rose, fragrant; 
leaves milky-white beneath. $1.00 up. 
Vaccinium glauco-album. Rare. A small evergreen shrub from altitudes 
of 10,000 ft. in the Himalayas. Beautiful leathery dark blue-green 
leaves with bluish-white reverses. Flowers borne in 2-3 in. racemes, | 
pinkish white. Berries black with white bloom, $1.50. 
V. Nummularia. A small shrub with oval leathery wrinkled leaves set- 
closely on slender branches beset with light brown bristles. The 
flowers are smal] pinkish urns, margined with brighter color. Fruits 
are black. In Sikkim it sometimes grows in the forks of trees; here 
it requires a sheltered position. Only a few small plants $1.50. 
V. padifolium. 5-8 ft. Red-branched; semi-evergreen leaves closely set 
and dark red in autumn. Flowers in short racemes, purple-yellow; 
fruit purple-black with blue bloom. $1.50. 
x V. uliginosum. A little cosmopolite of the northern hemisphere from 
the mountains to old bogs on the coasts. A very prostrate growth 
with oval blue leaves and large purple-blue fruits. $2.00. 
x V. Vitis-Idaea. 8-12 in. Arctic alpine; stoloniferous; oval dark shiny 
ede leaves; flowers waxy pink urns, red fruit persistent. 75c- 
2.00. 
V. Vitis-idea-minor. A small shrub from farther north: $1.00 up. 
BERBERIDACEAE 
x Vancouveria hexandra. 10 in. Creeping ground-cover; more delicate _ 4 
in all its parts than Epimedium to which it is related. Pale com- — 
pound leaves; creamy flowers on wiry stems in Apr. 35c. 
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