178 ON KEEPING UP A SUCCESSION OF FLOWERS. 
Bysi@Mens, having white grounds broken with various shades of 
urple :— 
r Addison, F. ; Ambassadeur d’Hollande, F.; Captain Cook, F. ; 
Claude, Fl.; David, Fl.; Duke of Buccleuch (Groom’s), F.; Im- 
peratrix florum, F.; Lewald, F.; Louis the Sixteenth, B.; Lady John 
Russell, F.; Michael Angelo, Fl. ; Mentor, or Reine de Sheba, F.; 
Pandora, Fl.; Roi de Siam, FI.; Victoria Regina (Groom’s), B. ; 
Violet Alexander, F. 
Bizarps, yellow grounds with different shades of maroon, &c. 
Catafalque (Dutch), F.; Commodore Napier, Fl. ; Duke of Cam- 
bridge, B.; Duke of Devonshire, F. ; Duke of Norfolk (Groom’s), B. ; 
Duke of Sutherland, FI. ; Earl of Lincoln, Fl. ; Emperor of Austria, B. ; 
Everard, Fl.; Fabius, F.; Garrick, Fl.; Marshal Soult, B.; Nourri 
Effendi, Fl.; Optimus, F.; Platoff, F.; Polyphemus, B.; Prince of 
Wales, Fl.; Pompe Fenebre, F].; Prince of the Netherlands, FI. ; 
William the Fourth, FI. 
Mr. Groom has forced the Lilium lancifolium punctatum, the first 
flower opening on May 20th. The plants were not drawn, but of stiff 
robust growth. Thus by due attention this charming tribe may be had 
in perfection from May to September, and will amply repay for it. 
Mr. Groom has a great number of this class of Lilies growing in the 
open ground, and of the charming Hybrid Lilies of the Orange and 
Red class ; when in bloom they are well worth seeing. 
ON KEEPING UP A SUCCESSION OF FLOWERS. 
BY JOHN M‘ARDELL, 
To keep up a succession of flowers as long as possible is one of the 
chief objects of a flower-gardener. A parterre without blossoms is 
like an orchard without fruit; every expedient is therefore had 
recourse to for the purpose of retarding the flowering of some kinds, 
and expediting that of others. Our early spring flowers, which are 
chiefly bulbs and tubers, would be inclined to flower again in the 
autumn if they were not checked by the great heat of the summer in 
those countries of which they are natives; or if in imitation thereof, 
the careful florist did not remove them out of the bed in which they 
have already flowered. ‘Thus by stopping their growth and keeping 
them ina colder and moister climate than their own, we keep them 
from blooming till the season when their blossoms are most weleome 
to us. In this way many of these bulbous and tuberous-rooted plants 
can be flowered almost at any season ; but there are rules of propriety 
in the execution of these proceedings: a Snowdrop would scarcely be 
regarded at midsummer, while surrounded by so many gaudier beau- 
ties; neither would the Tulip—the bright queen of the garden—look 
well amid the sober tints of autumn, Nature intends that her beauties 
shall be dispersed over the whole circle of the year, and the florist 
assists in this arrangement, and for this assistance claims for himself 
the privilege that she shall be, to a limited extent, subservient to him 
in some instances while he encroaches upon her seasonal Jaws. ‘The 
