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should be perfectly free from dots and small lines, 

 or any break of the color of the stripe. Where the 

 corrolla or pod is longest, the flower is best, and 

 blossoms with the least trouble. 



Those which are thinnest of leaves produce most 

 seed. 



The clove has the highest perfume, and those bi- 

 zarres in which the clove-streak prevails, are the 

 sweetest. 



TIGER LILY. 



"Emblem of human pride that fades away, 

 Of earthly joy that blooms but to decay." 



The Tiger flower is a most ornamental Iris, and 

 contributes much during the summer and autumn 

 months to the beauty of the flower borders, by an 

 almost inexhaustible succession of pretty spotted 

 blossoms, which, however, are very fugacious, last- 

 ing but a few hours ; they expire under the influence 

 of the mid-day sun, and, unlike their sister flowers 

 of the garden, they seem to shun the solar rays, and 

 only expand their blossoms to the breeze of night : 

 every morning presents a fresh succession, which, 

 ere we have well seen and admired them, are gone. 

 Though this plant is a native of Mexico, the bulbs 

 will stand our winters, if they are placed sufficiently 

 deep in the soil ; the safer plan, however, is to take 

 them up in autumn, and replant them any time during 

 spring. They thrive best in a compost of sand and 

 peat, but grow sufficiently well in the common gar- 

 den soil, and increase with great rapidity by offsets. 

 They may also be easily propagated by seeds. 



