that it is no longer possible to trace the fate of any 

 particular species. In the cultivation of the genus Lache- 

 nalia he was particularly successful. No one who ever 

 saw his Garden in the earlier months of spring can have 



forgotten the beauty of his 



greenhouses 



and glazed pits 



glowing with hundreds of flowers of L. tricolor, quadricolor, 

 and other richly-coloured kinds, intermixed with the lighter 

 and more graceful blossoms of endless varieties of Ixia and 

 Gladiolus. 



L 



r 



A Cape bulb, very easily cultivated in a pit from which 

 frost is excluded. 



J. L. 



