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segments ; they are pure white, with a h'ne of delicate blue along 

 the middle of each segment, spreading wider as it descends to 

 the base of the segment. The flowers are delicately scented if 

 they are not bruised in handling ; but on being bruised, both 

 the flowers and leaves smell like garlic. They appear in spring 

 and early summer. It grows freely in any ordinarily good soil, 

 but should have good drainage to prevent stagnation, but will 

 take ample supplies of water when growing. Easily increased 

 by means of the offsets from the bulbs. Native of Buenos 

 Ayres. Other beautiful Triteleias are T. co7ispicua odorata, 

 alliacia, d.xiA po7'7-ifolia. They are all handsome pot-plants, and 

 easily managed in that way in a cold frame, the pots being 

 plunged and kept rather dry in winter; and they maybe flowered 

 in rooms or in the greenhouse. 



Tritoma. — A splendid genus of plants, and all the more valu- 

 able that their display is produced very late in autumn. It is 

 limited in species, and two of those that are in cultivation are 

 not hardy in the northern parts of Britain. These are T. Biir- 

 chellii and T. Rooperii, both fine plants, but inferior in effective- 

 ness to T. Ut'dria, which is undoubtedly hardy in all parts of 

 the country. In the south those two more tender and later- 

 flowering species may succeed in warm sheltered spots — and I 

 have seen T. Roopej'ii stand mild winters in the north, reserv- 

 ing its flowers till the month of May. T. BiwcheUii I have not 

 seen tried in this way, but it is less handsome than Rooperii, 

 and scarcely worth much trouble when we have the alternative 

 in the same type of the gorgeous Uvaria. They all prefer light, 

 rich, sandy loam, or peat and loam, well drained, but delight 

 in heavy drenchings of water in the summer and autumn. Pro- 

 pagate by division of the crowns. 



T. media, syn. Kniphofia media {Smaller T.) — This is an old 

 inhabitant, and not an uncommon ornament of shrubbery bor- 

 ders. It grows from 18 inches to 2 feet high, producing masses 

 of soft, fleshy, sub-glaucous leaves, about as long as the plant is 

 high. The flower-scapes are erect and the spikes short, and the 

 flowers are orange red. They appear irregularly, never many 

 spikes together, from early summer till early or late winter; and 

 often in mild winters they continue sending up a spike occa- 

 sionally throughout that season. Native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



T. Uvaria, syn. Kniphofia Uvaria. — In the west of Scotland 

 they have dubbed this splendid plant " Bailie Nicol Jarvie's 

 Poker," and the name fits the plant better than a spike of it 

 would have served the Bailie in his perilous circumstances. 

 The plant has become very popular within the past twelve or 



