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NEW PLANTS, KXC, 



projects from two 

 to three inches ; 

 they are of the 

 deepest purple, with 

 a narrow, well-de- 

 fined, pure yellow 

 oblong spot at the 

 end of the sepals, 

 accompanied by 

 some purple specks 

 upon a paler ground. 

 When brought into 

 a room the flowers 

 remain expanded for 

 some days, and emit 

 a faint but delight- 

 ful smell of violets. 

 The plant is found 

 wild in the Crimea. 

 A hardy bulb, as 

 easily managed as 

 the hyacinth, grow- 

 ing freely in a com- 

 post composed of 

 loam, well-decom- 

 posed cow-dung,and 

 silver sand. It is 

 increased by the 

 bulbs, which should 

 be kept quite dry 

 when in a dormant 

 state, and after- 

 wards started at dif- 

 ferent times in Sep- 

 tember and October, 

 for giving a succes- 

 sion of flowers in 

 the spring. 



A most valuable 

 plant for pot culture 

 in the spring, and 

 which may rival all 

 other spring bulbs, 

 not only on account 

 of its brilliant blue 

 flowers, but because 



