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to take off in seven or eight weeks, when they may be planted two 

 or three in an upright forty-eight pot, or say two in a sixty. Let 

 them be placed on tiles or slates to prevent worms getting into the 

 pots ; they should be placed in winter quarters in October, where 

 they should remain till spring. I hope soon to be able to send you a 

 continuation of this paper on this plant ; but before I now finish, I 

 shall mention that persons desirous of having a curious and good col- 

 lection of Carnations ought to procure a few from Germany, they are 

 there very fine. A gentleman in this county (Stirlingshire, North 

 Britain) some years ago procured a collection of exceedingly fine 

 Carnations and Picotees ; one of them is considered the finest dark 

 pink Picotee that has ever been seen in this country. It flowers most 

 abundantly every season, and the gentleman in whose garden it 

 grows (George Macintosh, Esq., younger, of Campsie) has an abun- 

 dant collection of young plants from it. 



ARTICLE V. 



ON THE CULTURE OF LILIUM EXIMIUM, &c. 



BY MR. H. m'mILI.AN, FOREMAN TO MR. J. CATTELT., NURSERYMAN, WESTERHAM, 



KENT. 



In accordance with the request of your correspondent (a Subscriber) 

 I have great pleasure in sending you my method of cultivating those 

 splendid plants, the Lilium eximium, punctatum, &c, having no 

 doubt it will be interesting to more of your readers. By your cor- 

 respondent calling one L. punctatum, I have no doubt he means the 

 variety of lancifolium or speciosum. All the genus will grow stronger 

 in some soils than in others, although you may make them nearly 

 alike ; they will die in one and grow vigorously in the other ; for in- 

 stance, a friend of mine has L. Japonicum growing very strong among 

 his Americans, with no other care than a covering of ashes in the 

 winter, and once in three or four years moving them to another part 

 of the bed, while at another place they do not do well in the peat 

 among the Americans, although the Americans grow much stronger 

 than at the former place. In a poor, dry, sandy border, where roses 

 die for want of better soil, they flourish exceedingly, while with me, 

 in sandy peat where Americans grow very strong, and some varieties 

 of Lilies do well, Japonicum has gone off for these two last years ; I 



