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they should be turned out of the old 

 pots, and the crocks should be carefully 

 removed, so as to avoid injuring the 

 fibres, or even shaking off the earth; 

 the bulbs are then to be repotted in a 

 larger-sized pot, in peat and sand, with 

 good drainage. 



Raising Varieties. — Mr. Groom ob- 

 serves, that "in hybridizing, care should 

 be always taken to save seed from those 

 flowers which have the best shape; for 

 I believe the form of the future flower 

 is much more dependent on the kind 

 from which the seed is saved than upon 

 that which furnishes the pollen; the 

 pollen generally gives the colour. It is 

 also highly desirable that the flower 

 from which the pollen is taken should 



undisturbed, for the purpose of lifting, 

 for forcing during the winter months. 



Forcing. — Pot them in thirty-tvvo- 

 sized pots, filled to within three and a 

 half inches of the rim with rich loam, 

 upon which the roots are closely placed, 

 and then covered about two inches in 

 thickness with equal parts of leaf mould 

 and sand ; they are then well watered, 

 so as to settle the mould about the roots ; 

 place them on a shelf near the glass, in 

 a moist stove, or forcing-house, the 

 temperature of which may range from 

 65° to 75^, and take care that the soil 

 does not become dry. When they are 

 so far advanced that the plants show 

 their heads of flowers, remove them into 

 a warm green-house, still placing them 



be darker than that producing the seed ; ! near the glass, until as they advance in 

 for I have found in such cases the seed- ■ growth they are withdrawn by degrees 

 linn-s have been much more beautiful j into a shaded part of the house, from 

 (being frequently spotted or stripedj, j whence they are removed to the draw- 

 than where I have reversed the process. I ing room as required, their places to be 

 I have seen this occur in so marked a j immediately filled with others, which 

 manner in the ranunculus, that I have are similarly treated, and thus an ample 

 adopted it as a principle, never to take [ succession will be kept up. Care and 



pollen from a lighter coloured flower.' 

 — Gard. Chron. 



LILY. Lilium. 



LILY-HYACINTH. Scilla Lilia- 

 hyacinthus. 



LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY. Conval- 

 laria majalis. 



Soil and 'Situation. — Clayey loam, 

 near water, and where the noonday sun 

 IS intercepted by shade, suits it best. 



Propagation. — Mr. D. Watts com- 

 municated a paper to the Regent's Park 

 Gardeners' Society, in 1845, from which 

 the following are extracts: — "Before 

 planting, dig over and well break the 

 ground about nine inches deep, then 

 plant the roots about four inches apart, 

 all over the surface of the ground, giv- 

 ing them a gentle press down with the 

 thumb and finger, and then cover them 

 about four inches thick with the same 

 sort of soil. On forming new plantations 

 of this plant, I select all the flowering 

 buds from my stock of roots, which I 

 plant by themselves, but in the same 

 way as I do the others. If equal quan- 

 tities of each can be had, there will be 

 equal quantities of flowers for two or 

 three successive seasons, after which 



attention are requisite in lifting and 

 selecting the plants for forcing; they 

 require a minute examination to dis- 

 tinguish those that will flower from 

 those that will not, the only diff"erence 

 being that the buds of the former are 

 more round and short than those of the 

 latter." — Florisfs Journ. 



LILY-PINK. Aphyllanthes. 



LILY-THORN. Catesbea. 



LIME. Citras limonum. 



LIME is valuable as a manure, for 

 some one or more of its salts enter into 

 the composition of every vegetable. 

 But it is not the lime of every district 

 that is suitable for the purpose. Some 

 specimens contain a very large pro- 

 portion of magnesia, which, absorbing 

 carbonic acid very slowly, remains in a 

 caustic state, to the injury of the roots 

 of the plants, and the diminution of 

 benefit from the carbonic acid evolved 

 by the decomposing constituents of the 

 soil. Neither can the gardener apply 

 it to all his soils with advantage. Thus, 

 peat and bog earth are beneficial to the 

 plants grown upon them by their con- 

 taining gallic and other acida which lime 

 removes. 



To garden soil of the usual staple 



they should be all taken up, the roots I about fifty bushels of lime per acre is a 

 divided, and replanted in the same way. I sufficient quantity. If the soil be clayey 

 At the time of replanting, it will be the quantity may be doubled. A very 

 requisite to leave a sufficient quantity | excellent manure is formed by mixing 



