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

 particular species. In the cultivation of the genus Lache- 

 nalia lie 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. 



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

 frost is excluded. 



J. L. 



