288 GREEN-HOUSE CAPE AND HOLLAND BULBS. [Sept. 



G.formosissimus, beautiful bright scarlet, the three upper 

 petals having a spot of white, a very profuse bloomer. G. 

 Queen Victoria, G. Lafayette, and several others are of 

 very similar character. They all do perfectly when kept 

 dry all winter, and planted in the open ground early in 

 March. The beauty of this genus is all centered in the 

 flowers. (Soil No. 10.] 



Jxia, a genus containing about twenty-five species of 

 very free-flowering bulbs. /. monadelpha, flowers blush 

 and green. /. leucantha, flowers large white. 7. capa- 

 tata, flowers in heads, of a white and almost black colour. 

 /. cornea, flowers orange and velvet. /. columelaris is a 

 beautiful shaded rosy purple. 7. kermoslna, a fine ver- 

 milion colour. 7. squallida, shaded rosy lilac ; 7. viridi- 

 flbra, green; 7. longi/lora, buff. The flower stems are 

 from six to twenty-four inches high. (Soil No. 11.) 



Lilium. The Chinese species of this emblem of purity 

 is everywhere esteemed, and the fine Chinese sorts are 

 very splendid, such as L. longi/lora, L. longi/lora suaveo- 

 lens, and L. japonicum, are all pure white ; L. lancifolium, 

 white, petals reflexed ; L. lantifblium punctatum, white 

 spotted with rose ; L. lancifolium speciosum, rose, spotted 

 with crimson. L. lancifolium and its varieties, are all 

 delightfully scented with the odour of vanilla ; noble spe- 

 cimens of the family from Japan, growing from four to six 

 feet high ; a full grown bulb producing from ten to twenty 

 flowers, and perfectly hardy south of Philadelphia." They 

 should be potted in seven or eight-inch pots, and kept in a 

 cool part of the green-house ; give the pots at least one inch 

 of drainage. (Soil No. 11.) 



Oxdlis. All the varieties and species may now be 

 potted ; the whole are pretty spring flowers, requiring to 

 be kept near the glass : among the many the following are 

 very deserving of attention : O. laxulus, or rosucea, bright 

 rose. O. Bowii, bright rose red, a large and profuse 

 bloomer, and one of the finest. O. JJorabunda, pink ; a 



Sretty free-flowering tuberous species. O. luxula alba, 

 ush white ; O. multiftora, profuse flowering white. O. 

 versicolor, striped. O. dippii, lilac, which blooms in 

 summer. O. caparina, yellow ; there is also a double 

 yellow variety, though not pretty ; for a few others see last 

 month. There should be three or four bulbs planted in a 



