48 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



usinjj; the help of a bass matting in even- hard frost. Before winter, fill up tht» 

 vacant inch left on the surface of the pots with old dung gathered from the fields, 

 which replace with fine mould about the time of flowering. To destroy green fly, 

 with which the plants are apt to be infested, a slight cloud of tobacco fumes 

 closed for a few minutes under the glass cover is all that is necessary. Other 

 flowers in congregated array may be more dazzling, but the auricula so exhibited 

 lias no rival in soft, rich, and diversified beauty. It has more of dignity than 

 gayety ; it has not the tinsel of a theatre, but the jewellery and grandeur of an 

 assembly of nobles and high dames, in broad ruff, powder, crimson, purple, and 

 ermine The sight justifies the art: art cannot make the purple of the auricula, 

 but without art the auricula has not the purple ; and the finest forms left to the 

 common fare of earth and skies, soon become the spectres of what they were — 

 the gorgeous velvet dwindling to the meanness of hawksweed, and the crown- 

 broad disk to the dimensions of a daisy. — Manse Garden. 



The Lilv. — Of which there are many varieties, but a few of the best are the 

 large common white, growing four or five feet high ; (the small white flower, not 

 unfrequentlv called lily, is a Narcissus ;) the orange lily, which takes its name 

 from its colour ; the fiery lily, which may be known by the bulbs it bears on the 

 stalks ; the martagon, or Turk's-cap lily, of which there are many sorts, and 

 which are named from the turning in of the petals presenting the figure of a 

 turban ; the tiger, and the crown imperial. The bulbs are scaly and do not agree 

 with the treatment of hard bulbs. If kept long out of the ground they must be 

 placed in sand to Lrevent drying. The proper season for planting is September ; 

 planted in spring they are apt not to flower that year. But the best rule with all 

 the tribe, is to observe when the leaves begin to decay after the season of flower- 

 ing, and then to take them up, whether to give more room or fresh soil. They 

 are too monstrous for beds and do best either in single plants or in patches at 

 intervals. The crown-imperial, though not the most showy of lilies, is a grand 

 and elegant flower, and remarkable for its rapid growth at an early period of the 

 spring. At that season of all food it is the most enticing to snails. Being 

 horribly olefiant and juicy, it is probably to their palate what garlic is to a 

 Spaniard. But unfortunately for the plant, being tisular, the snail perforations, 

 resembling thoss of a flute, admit the air direct to the heart, and death is the 

 consequence. Early in spring scoop out the earth around the stems, and with it 

 the slimy people sleeping beside their banquet. Put a roll of stiff paper round 

 each stem, not tight, and fasten it with a pin ; then draw in the earth, leaving 

 the paper two incees higher. The snails do not find their way over. — Ibid. 



REFERENCE TO PLATE. 



The superior kinds of Pinks and Picotee given this month are seedlings in 

 the possession of the persons who raised them, and who offer them for sale. 

 They have been advertized in the Cabinet for October and November, last year. 

 We have been informed, by persons who have sjen the flowers, that they are of 

 first-rate excellence, and ought to he in every collection of this class of flowers. 



T. HARDCASTLE, PRINTF.K, RICH-STREET, SHEFFIELD. 



