UNDER the genus Geum a garden avens should certainly be ranked, but this, though very nearly allied, is not strictly an avens, but a cinquefoil, and its botanical name is Potentilla alpestris, otherwise the orange alpine cinquefoil, occasionally registered as Potentilla salisburgensis. It is also known as the mountain cinquefoil, and may be looked for hopefully on mountains in the north of England and North Wales, and on the Breadalbane and Clova mountains in Scotland. Where it occurs there will usually also be found the smaller spring cinquefoil, Potentilla verna, a very variable plant, which is often so like this P. alpestris that by many botanists the two are considered as forms of one and the same species. They are proper plants for the garden, and more especially for the rockery, needing always a mo