THE LILY-OF-THE-V ALLEY PIT. 85 



likely to meet the desired object. The pit shown below 

 has two distinct aspects and two uses. The Lily being 

 stubborn in its nature to obtain early, should be planted 

 on the south side of this pit ; and the Helleborus, being 

 quite the reverse, should be planted on the north side 

 of it. I propose that this pit should be sixty feet long, 

 and five feet wide inside on each side of it, built with 

 four-and-a-half-inch work throughout ; three feet high 

 at the back from the floor, h h, to the ridge, and one foot 



FIG. 21. FORTY FEET SECTION OF LILY-OF-THE- VALLEY PIT. 



References to plan.- a a, ground line ; is, south aspect ; c, north aspect ; i>, middle 

 wall; E E, underground chambers for heat; //, partition walls, to be pigeon- 

 holed, to admit of the heat passing from chambers ^ . to E E h h, slate floor. 



six inches in front; the sashes made to slide as is usual, 

 so that they may be taken off and put by for the 

 summer months or used for other purposes, as the 

 Lilies and the Hellebores do not require them on after 

 May. In fact they will be much benefited by full 

 exposure to the influences of the rains and air all 

 through the summer months till November. My ob- 

 ject is to make permanent plantations of both the Lily- 

 of-the-valley and the Helleborus niger in the soil, a 



