I2 ABOUT ORCHIDS. 
multiplies fast. I find Anomatheca cruenta hardy 
in my sheltered garden. 
The small tank on legs still remains, and I cut 
a few Nymphaea odorata every year. But it is 
mostly given up to Afonogeton adzstachyon—the 
“Cape lily.’ They seed very freely in the open ; 
and if this tank lay in the ground, long since their 
exquisite white flowers, so strange in shape and so 
powerful of scent, would have stood as thick as 
blades of grass upon it—such a lovely sight as was 
beheld in the garden of the late Mr. Harrison, at 
Shortlands. But being raised two feet or so, with 
a current of air beneath, its contents are frozen to 
a solid block, soil and all, again and again, each 
winter. That a Cape plant should survive such 
treatment seems incredible—contrary to all the 
books. But my established Aponogeton do some- 
how; only the seedlings perish. Here again is a 
useful hint, I trust. But evidently it would be 
better, if convenient, to take the bulbs indoors 
before frost sets in. 
Having water thus at hand, it very soon occurred 
to me to make war upon the slugs by propagating 
their natural enemies. Those banks and borders 
of Saxifraga hypnoides, to which I referred for- 
merly, exact some precaution of the kind. Much 
as every one who sees admires them, the slugs, no 
