. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. y a Tibetan species,which only ovei flows into the higherHimalayan valleys along the southernborder of Tibet. Though it has been overand over again introduced to Europeangardens, little success seems to haveattended its cultivation. This is not sur-prising, considering the natural conditionsof its existence, and it may be doubtedwhether any, save those who arc in chargeof the really alpine gardens in CdntralEurope, can hope to raise the species suc-cessfully. The last member of the group,M. sinuata,
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. y a Tibetan species,which only ovei flows into the higherHimalayan valleys along the southernborder of Tibet. Though it has been overand over again introduced to Europeangardens, little success seems to haveattended its cultivation. This is not sur-prising, considering the natural conditionsof its existence, and it may be doubtedwhether any, save those who arc in chargeof the really alpine gardens in CdntralEurope, can hope to raise the species suc-cessfully. The last member of the group,M. sinuata, which is the representative inthe eastern Himalaya of SI. aculeata, lias notyet been raised in Europe. More familiar than the Aculealfp groupis the group Bobuslie, which takis itsname from M. robusta, a yellow-floweredspecies from Kumaon. This has been fre-quently introduced to European gardens,and porsibly now exists in more than onecollection, though if so it wouH appear tobe somewhat nadily mistiken for M. pani-culata, another jellow - flowered specieswhich extends from Central Nepal to. Kit: ]—jiHeoNorsi-^ cuandis as ixowerinc; in the EDINHDIaiH ItOTANlC GARDEN. {Keduccd Ofic-lial/.) Colour of llo*.vers dark blue, with markings and suflusionof purple. Size of llowerg, 5 inches in diameter. Bootan. Bjth species, as references to theliterature of the suliject will show, have beenmistaken for M. nepalensis, a red-floweredsp3cies which considerably resembles in externals. This species wasapparently known in English gardens before1830, but had so completely disappearedfrom cultivation till it was re-introduced bySir George ICing, and flowered by the lateMr. Wilson at Weybridge, about twenty years ago, that when it was successfullylaised anew it wa? not recognised, but wastaken for a red-llowered form of M. Wal-lichii. This last species is possibly themost familiar member of the Robu>t;xgroup ;owing to the pale, somewhat washed-out-purple colour of its petal
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