. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. na rubens, Seneoio elivorum, S. tangu-ticus, Buddleia variabilis var. Veitchiana,Actinidia chinensis, Neillia sinensis, Acon-itum Wilsoni, Artemisia lactiflora, PinusArniandi, Spirsea Henryi, Viburnum rhiti-dophyllam, Brandisia raoemosa, Deutziadiscolor, Aconituni scaposum var. pyrami-dalis, Corydalis thalictrifolia, C. Wilsoni,numerous and various Vines, Maples,Spiraeas, Rubuses, Magnolias, Limes,Birches,Pyruses, Koses, &<i. obtain, but Wilson evinced a dogged couragewhich ensured success. Early
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. na rubens, Seneoio elivorum, S. tangu-ticus, Buddleia variabilis var. Veitchiana,Actinidia chinensis, Neillia sinensis, Acon-itum Wilsoni, Artemisia lactiflora, PinusArniandi, Spirsea Henryi, Viburnum rhiti-dophyllam, Brandisia raoemosa, Deutziadiscolor, Aconituni scaposum var. pyrami-dalis, Corydalis thalictrifolia, C. Wilsoni,numerous and various Vines, Maples,Spiraeas, Rubuses, Magnolias, Limes,Birches,Pyruses, Koses, &<i. obtain, but Wilson evinced a dogged couragewhich ensured success. Early in 1904 he again made a journey toTatien-lu by a different route from Kiating,and in crossing some of the higher passesendured intense cold; his attendants werefrost-bitten, and all suffered from snow-blindness. Wilson describes the scenery of theseregions as being of savage grandeur—thecountry like a sea of mountains, all thehigher peaks being under perpetual Rhododendrons are gorgeous, and formiles and miles present in their season amass of bloom. He returned to Kiating by. MK. E. H. WILSON. From this journey ^\ilson i-eturned inApril, 1902, spending the summerand autumnat Messrs. Veitchs Coombe Wood nursery,and he started again for the extreme west ofChina, as far as the Tibetan frontier, inJanuary, 1903, furnished as before withdefinite written instructions. Once morethese instructions were carried out practicallywithout a failure. In six months, ic. in June, 1903, hereached Kiating in view of the mountainsof Tibet, the valley of the Min river, andthe sacred mountain Omei. At Tatien-lu, on the frontier of Tibet, hefound the object of his journey, Meeonopsisintegrifolia (see Supplementary Illustration,Garientrs Chronide, October 1, 1904), andobtained cjumtilies of seed, the results ofiyhlch were distributed in September, prevailed, labour was difficult, to the ordinary route, and reached it in safetyon July 24, 1904. In August Wilson again started nor
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