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 BL ANDFORDI A NOB 1 1 , 1 S . 



The plant which we now figure has not the claim of novelty 

 for its introduction to our pages, as it is one that lias for man) 

 years existed in our gardens, but its effective appearance and 

 freedom of flowering give it a claim which many of our so 

 tailed novelties do not possess, and as it ranks amongst those 

 neglected plants which deserve a better fate than has befallen 

 them, we introduce it for the purpose of drawing the attention 

 to it of those who desire effective flowers for greenhouse de- 

 coration. 



The Blandfordias are all natives of the Australian continent, 

 and have many of them been introduced from thence for some 

 years j they are very closely allied to Hemerocallis, and are very 

 easily managed. The bulbs should be treated very similarly 

 to Ixia, Sparaocis, and other allied bulbs from the Cape of 

 Good Hope; that is, they should be grown in peat mixed with 

 white sand, to which may be added a little loam ; they ought 

 to be potted late in the autumn and placed in a cool green- 

 house, but little water being given until the bulbs begin to 

 push, when they should be watered carefully and placed in a 

 warmer part of the house after flowering; the pots should be 

 placed on one side out of the way of wet until the planting- 

 time. 



Blandfordia nobilis is one of the most effective of the tribe ; 

 its flowers are produced in large clusters; they are, as will be 

 seen, of a pendent character; the colour a bright orange, with 

 the edges of the lobes bright yellow; the stamens are some- 

 what elongated, and appear beyond the opening of the flower, 

 so that at first sight it might readily be mistaken for an orange- 



