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speak of it as ' flos magnificeae piilchritudinis;' for, surely, if there 

 is any thing not human, which is magnificent in beauty, it is this 

 plant." 



" Beyond its own country, it has no rival; but in Japan there 

 are others, that will scarcely yield even to it. Kaempfer tells us 

 of the Oni Jiiri, or Devil's lily, W'ith a showy flower, a span in 

 breadth, the flowers all stained and mottled with crimson and 

 purple and minium; of the Fime Juri, a dwarf species, daggled 

 with marks of blood, its purple flowers, moreover, spotted with 

 crimson; and of the Fi Juri, or fiery lily. Can these be among 

 the twenty species of lily which Dr. Von Siebold is said to have 

 brought alive from Japan to the Botanic Garden of Ghent .'^" 



It flowered in Belgium as long ago as 1832, and several ac- 

 counts of it have been published there, but they appear not to 

 have found their w^ay to England. Kaempfer learned that the 

 Japanese obtained the roots from Corea; and Thunberg states 

 that he saw it about Xegasci and elsewhere, but always cultivated. 



It flowered last August in England, in the nursery of the 

 Messrs. Rollisons of Tooting, where the drawing was made. 

 Paxton speaks of it, in the Magazine of Botany, as the L. lanci- 

 folium rubrum, but the lancifolium is a different species. 



If the glorious specimens which Kaempfer mentions above are 

 among those introduced by Dr. Von Siebold, it will be as great 

 an acquisition to this tribe as the beautiful new camellias, which he 

 brought from China, are to the camellia family. The plants will, 

 undoubtedly, thrive with the same treatment as that given to the 

 L. japonicum; that is, to plant them in a glazed pit, in good 

 light loamy soil, where they can be protected from frost; or in 

 pots, and sheltered in a frame; or in the green-house. (^Bct. 

 Reg., Nov.) 



Ap.t. VI. Notes on Gardens and Nurseries, 



After a considerable lapse of time, w^e resume our notices of/rardens 

 and nurseries. We were in hopes to have been enabled to have given 

 tlioiu at considerable Iciiijth at this time; but, with tiie press of matter 

 and engagements which prevented us from visiting the gardens at this 

 season, we have been compelled to defer a portion of them till our next. 



After what we have stated in our article on the progress of gardening, 

 during thf> past year, and our list of plants which have been introduced, 

 a tolerable estimate can i)e made of the interest which the collections 

 possess, into which such plants have found their way. Many of the 



