. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. rs also some error in Parlatores record of the date (April 9), 1858, as in the secondweek of March, when gathered by Messrs. Maw and Sommier, thoplant was nearly out of flower, and most of the specimens had well,matured seed. It was also observed in a field near a little farm-house, known as Poggio di Venti, between Massa and the originalstation, and was said by the country people to be not unfrequent inthe Tuscan Maremma. Tho flower closely resembles that of Crocussiiavcolens, but tho tunics cf t-C cjrm
. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. rs also some error in Parlatores record of the date (April 9), 1858, as in the secondweek of March, when gathered by Messrs. Maw and Sommier, thoplant was nearly out of flower, and most of the specimens had well,matured seed. It was also observed in a field near a little farm-house, known as Poggio di Venti, between Massa and the originalstation, and was said by the country people to be not unfrequent inthe Tuscan Maremma. Tho flower closely resembles that of Crocussiiavcolens, but tho tunics cf t-C cjrm are strongly reticulated, thoughnot quite so coarse in the fibre as the tunics of C- April 1, 1876.] THE GARDEN. 305 THE FLOWER GARDEN. A NEW SNOWDROP. (galantiius emvesii.)We recently saw this fine form of Snowdrop in flower in bnlb grounds at, Tooting, from whence flowers wereobtained from which our engraving was prepared. It is, per-haps, the finest of all our Snowdrops, its nearest allyundoulitcdly being G. Imperator, b)it in that variety the green. Galanthus Elwesii. blotches at the bases of the three inner segments of theperianth are wanting. It may be at once distinguished fromthe common Snowdrop by its larger size, and from G. pli-catug by its more glaucous unplaited leaves, but it seemsvery questionable to us whether all the Snowdrops are notforms of the same species, seeing there is but little struc-tural difference among them, the main points of distinctionbeing size of flower, and a slight difference in the depth orarrangement of the green blotches of the inner segments. AsQ garden plant this SiiQwdrop will be aost welbOme wheu more plentiful, not only for planting in patches among theherbage, on outlying portions of the lawn, or wherever theless conspicuous common form is usually to be found, butalso for use in bouquets and for decoration. The bold andfinelj-moulded outer segments are of crystalline whiteness,and the flowers of it which
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