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showy ornaments of the garden, as the color of the flower 

 is rich and brilliant. If ten or fifteen flowers could be 

 produced on one stem, the effect of a group of plants 

 would be surpassingly rich. 



L, tcstaccunii A splendid species, introduced within a 

 few years under the name of L. excelsum. The plants 

 grow four or five feet high, forming a regular pyramid of 

 lanceolate leaves, upon a stout thick stem, crowned with 

 six or eight large nodding Lilies, of a delicate straw or 

 nankin color, finely set off by their prominent scarlet 

 anthers ; the bulbs are very large ; perfectly hardy. 



L. auratunii Golden Striped Lily. This new and 

 magnificent species of Lily lately introduced from Japan, 

 is thus described by Dr. Lindley : 



" If ever a flower merited the name of glorious, it is 

 this, which stands far above all other Lilies, whether we 

 regard its size, its sweetness, or its exquisite arrangement 

 of color. Imagine, upon the end of a purple stem, not 

 thicker than a ramrod, and not above two feet high, a 

 saucer-shaped flower at least ten inches in diameter, com- 

 posed of six spreading, somewhat crisp parts, rolled back 

 at their points, and having an ivory-white skin, thinly 

 strewn with purple points or studs, and oval or roundish 

 prominent purple stains. To this add, in the middle of 

 each of the six parts, a broad stripe of light satin-yellow, 

 loosing itself gradually in the ivory skin. Place the 

 flower in a situation where side-light is cut off, and no di- 

 rect light can reach it except from above, when the stripes 

 acquire the appearance of gentle streamlets of Australian 

 gold, and the reader who has not seen it, may form some 

 feeble notion of what it is. Fortunately ten thousand 

 eyes beheld it at South Kensington, and they can fill up 

 the details of the picture. From this delicious flower, 

 there arises the perfume of orange blossoms suiEcient to 

 fill a large room, but so delicate as to respect the weakest 



