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the window. Unlike most other plants, they do not require shifting but will grow 

 from year to year in the same pot, tub or box without a change of soil, or other 

 care than to give them plenty of water while flowering or in their growing state, 

 and moderate watering the balance of the season. The foliage being persistent 

 they require attention the whole year, but they can be kept under benches, in a 

 light cellar or in any light room away from the frost during the winter, and in 

 summer anywhere out of doors upon the piazza, the lawn, or if in pots, plunge 

 in the border. They require but little pot room, in fact do beiter when root 

 bound. The writer had a clump in a small tub last season that gave forty-one 

 spikes of bloom; the plant was but five years from a single bulb. It is truly one 

 of the finest, cheapest and most desirable cape bulbs. 



Its season of flowering is August and September, and we have neither been 

 able to coax or drive it into flower at any other season. 



The Lily. 

 One of the finest flowers in every sense of the word, too well known to need 

 de.scription. Every one knows what a Lily is. Most every one knows how to 

 grow it. Our only regret is that it is not better adapted for the window. All 

 or nearly all the varieties can be grown in pots, as well as in the border. The 

 only objection for the "Window" being the season of flowering, that iB from 

 July to September in the open border. Many kinds will not vary but a few 

 days with any treatment we have tried. The following varities are an exception 

 to the rule, and can be made to bloom early in April. 



Lilium Candidum. 



L. Candidum, or common garden Lily, more generally known than any other, 

 and we think one of the finest. In fact, as much as we admire and love the whole 

 family, could we have but one, it would be this one ; can be forced for the con- 

 servatory better perhaps than any other. It must be potted in August, soon 

 after flowering, while at rest. Here let us remark that while many other kinds 

 can be moved at almost any season of the year, this one cannot, only when at 

 rest, a period of not more than four weeks duration. There has been more dis- 

 appointment in buying this than all others together, as orders given for it in 

 spring will most likely be filled by seedsmen generally ; and not one that has 

 been kept out of ground during the winter will bloom the following summer. It 

 generally lakes two years, frequently three, before they can be made to flower, 

 when, if taken up at the proper time and planted at once, they are certain to 

 flower. The reason is simple enough; they make the bulb in fall that is to bloom 

 in spring, and if they are not allowed that privilege they simply bide their time 

 at the expense of the grower's good nature. 



The bulbs should be placed in six inch pots, top of the bulb even with the rim 

 of the pot. Soon as potted plunge in the border to save trouble. Bring in be- 

 fore heavy frosts and place on slight bottom heat ; water freely ; give plenty of 

 light and air and they will come into flower by Easter. They will bloom with 



