A TRAVELLER IN PLANTS.
The greatest of all "travellers in plants" of cur day— perhaps of any day, if Hooker be excepted—is now approach- ing some virgin country in Tibet, and that "roof of the world" from which he brought us that loveliest of our flowers, the blue meconopsis, which anyone of us may now grow at the expense of a twopenny packet. Perhaps second to the blue poppy in popular appeal was that lusty primula, which especially rejoices in damp places, known as Florinde. It excels in vigour rather than grace, and the colour is at best not exciting. The new Florinde, which is one of the special objects of Mr. Kingdon Ward's present search, is, I believe, pink ; and the charm of this rare colour in such a genus should make the pink Florinde a possession indeed.
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