Mr. Edgar took charge of a party iting for ten days the upper Feaches of the great Chieh La plateau' where they secured some close and excellent views of the great Kung-Ka snow mountain and the great Tua at 16,000, and the Nang Ka La at 16,100 feet. Mr. and Mrs. Ro: bert Cunningham and Mrs. Edgar. with another section of the perty. camped at 10,000 feet in the Vu Lin Kong valley, besides the Hot Springs This is a veritable Alpine meadow. In this valley Professor Smith col-ceted ten specimens each of 246] different species of flowers in a litre! over a week. Mr. and Mrs. Cun. bingham are botanists of no mean order and have been. sending specimens to. Edinburgh University for over twenty years. During the week of camping, they and Mrs, Edgar collected over sixty valuable speci mens, beside several more that were Unclassified.
The gardens of Mrs. Edgar and Mrs. Cunningham in Tachienlu, spite of the high altitude, are a riot of colour and beauty. They bestow real care and attention on these bowers of beauty, and have made them a joy and inspiration to behold. 'We noted mignonette, dahlia, holly shock, cosmos, marigolds, nasturtiums, wall' flowers, pansies, " corn-flowers. geraniums, sweet peas, Shasta daiies, tiger' lilies, "easter illes, tors. aweer william, orange inks, zinnias and coreopéis.
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