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ticularly enumerate a few that are sure to please, and that are 

 procurable at every good nursery. 



L'd'ium aiiratum. — This is so cheap now that fine bulbs may be 

 purchased at from half-a-crown to five shillings each, though only 

 four years ago it was greedily bought at ten guineas a bulb, and 

 toas cheap at that price. I cannot stop to describe this wondrous 

 lily, sufiice that the flower is of immense size, and has golden stripes 

 over white ground, and that as many as forty- seven flowers have 

 been produced on one plant, and all expanded at the same time. As 

 a'cool greenhouse plant it has no equal, but it is hardy, and may be 

 planted in the open garden with perfect safety. Plants just grow- 

 ing may be planted out now, and will flower in July or August. 

 Probably it will grow well in any good mellow loam, if enriched 

 with leaf-mould and quite rotten manure, but I recommend it to be 

 grown in pure peat of a lumpy, turfy nature, as in this kind of soil 

 I have found it to grow most freely, and the flowers are of the 

 most gorgeous description. If the bed it is planted in is damp, or 

 the position extra cold, the bulbs might be taken up in November, 

 and put in sand till March, and be then potted, and when the pots 

 are full of roots planted out again in May or June. 



Lilimn giganteum. — This is a grand lily, the pure white flowers 

 stand on a noble pillar of green, and the leaves are large and highly 

 varnished. Five years ago I paid three guineas each for bulbs, but 

 I can now obtain them for five shillings each. It is quite hardy, 

 though not generally known to be so. This I recommend to be 

 planted in pure peat of a tough turfy nature. Prom the 10th of 

 May to the 30th of June it should have half a gallon of water to 

 soak the ground all round it twice a week, except when there is 

 heavy rain, and then for a time the watering may cease. I have 

 seen fine plants of this lily lately fresh and vigorous, throwing up 

 flower-stems in gardens where Arundo donax has been cut down to 

 the ground, and Bambusa gracilis is almost destroyed. These plants 

 have passed three winters where they now are. Who then can 

 doubt the hardiness of the plant ? 



Arundinaria falcata is a bamboo growing twelve feet high, full of 

 grace and beauty. I cannot imagine a more splendid plant for a 

 sheltered nook in a " choice garden ;" its colour is so fresh and 

 pleasing, its form bo peculiar, so " tropical" like. It is strange that 

 though this grand plant will grow in any ordinary good soil, say 

 wherever the soil will grow a cabbage, that few people have it, 

 though there are thousands of pounds spent in bedding plants that 

 are seen in their proper beauty only for a few months, and have to 

 be constantly renewed. But each to his taste ; my duty is to direct 

 attention to good things, and there leave the matter. 



Crambe cordifolia is a gigantic kind of seakale. All our readers 

 know that the common seakale of the kitchen garden is a fine 

 plant, and quite worth a place in the flower garden. But this is 

 absolutely grand, and will grow in any soil, but will do best in a 

 good, sandy loam with plenty of good manure. Pind a place for it 

 first in the shrubbery, and having become acquainted with its 

 splendour you will be sure to find a place for it in the flower garden 



