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tinuing and beautiful effect may be obtained. Por tbe edge 

 eximium, teuuifolium, and longiflorum are the best. Candidum, 

 the common orange, and tigrinum, should follow from the central 

 testaceum in the order of their names. Chalcedouicum should come 

 next, and then lancifoliums and colchicum. The martagons would 

 be best near the orange and tigrinum ; varieties commonly sold as 

 Thunbergianum, fine dark orange kinds, would do well for coming 

 between the lancifoliums and those m.entioned as most suitable for 

 the outer edge. It would not be necessary to plant very thickly, as 

 if the beds were well prepared, the kinds would soon freely multiply. 

 There are other fine kinds besides those mentioned in this paper, but 

 it is best to confine ourselves to those that are readily obtained and 

 easy of culture. Those who grow the kinds named will be sure to 

 find all the others that are worth adding to their collection. The 

 bed may be edged with some neat plants that flower about the time 

 of the lilies, say Campanula carpatica, and its white variety, or, 

 indeed, many hardy and beautiful dwarf herbaceous and alpine 

 plants. 



Not the least charm of the lilies is their peculiarity of flowering 

 in succession. They drop in quickly one after another, and thus 

 for a good many weeks there is a good bloom. 



In borders, etc., the same treatment would suit, but of course it 

 is very much easier of application in a single bed. However, no 

 large and good mixed border should be vpithout tufts of the finer 

 lilies. Here and there along the shrubbery margin a mass of them 

 look very charming, and, indeed, there are many places in the 

 garden in which these delightful plants may be used with taste and 

 advantage. 



WINTEE SPINACH. 



BY A MARKET GAEDENEB. 



j|HIS may appear a very insignificant subject, but it is not 

 so to me, at all events, for I lost last year considerably 

 more than a hundred pounds through the failure of my 

 crop. It may be worth while to state how this 

 occurred. The ground was got ready in good time after 

 potatoes, and was not manured. The spinach was sown as usual, 

 and we had a splendid plant. But very soon after the plant was 

 established, and the leaves were three inches long, they began to 

 drop off suddenly. In going over the field I noticed this, and 

 instantly guessed what was the cause. On scraping away a little of 

 the soil from the plants that were aflected, I found that detestable 

 thing, the larva of the Daddy Longlegs, which always attacks plants 

 at the junction of the stem with the roots. Experience taught me 

 there was nothing to be done. I might have wasted money on gas 

 lime, or on searching out the grubs by hand ; but I know too well 

 the folly of attempting to cope with this pest in a remedial way. 

 But a preventive process may be adopted. Many a reader of the 



