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ous, and armed with spiny teeth. Flower-stalk branched, 

 several feet high; flowers nodding, yellow. Sandy, waste 

 places, and rocky hillsides. 



Yucca Serrulata, Haw; or Y. Glorifolia. Linn. (Spanish 

 bayonet; Adams needle.) A plant with rough, woody, cylind- 

 rical stem, five to six feet high, leaves one or more feet long, 

 spear-shaped, thickly clustered at summit, one inch wide, 

 with rough margin, and slender, needle-shaped points or 

 springs, very nasty to handle. Flower-stalk erect, many 

 flowered, nodding. Flowers two inches long, white with 

 purple base, forming a very showy, dense cluster It is quite 

 common, but its dagger-like leaves make it very formidable. 

 Edg-s of thickets, rocky barrens, and sandy soil are its favour- 

 ite loc lities. June to August. 



Ivilium Ivongiflorum. (Kaster lily.) Although extensively 

 cultivated in fields it is not uncommon as an escape, and is 

 quite naturalized. This is a dwarf growth of the following: — 



Ivilium Harrissii. (White Easter lily; Bermuda lily.) This 

 wa^ originally introduced from Japan, but its cultivation as a 

 staple product only dates from 1878. Although a considerable 

 number of buds are shipped North for Easter decorations, 3'et 

 the main trade lies in the bulbs, thousands of which are annu- 

 ally exported. The bulbs of these lilies are composed of scales 

 laid one upon the other, at the base of each of which is an 

 embryo bud, representing a future plant. The erect stem is 

 from two to four feet high, well leafed all its length with a 

 bunch at the summit of from three to five white blossoms, 

 several inches long, trumpet-shaped and often at a right angle 

 with the stem. General Hastings and Mr. Harris (florist of 

 Halifax, N. S.) may be styled the fathers of the introduction 

 here of this valuable lily. 



Hemerocallis Fulva. L/inn. (day lily.) A plant with oval- 

 pointed, very crinkled leaves of a pale green, six or seven 

 inches long and nearly as wide, throwing up a flower stem or 

 stems six or eight inches high, bearing a raceme of white, long 

 tube-shaped flowers. 



Agapanthus Umbellatus. (blue lily, locally called Star of 

 Bethlehem.) Bears a naked stem bout two feet high, with a 



