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trailing habit and brilliant flowers. " It will grow freely, 

 rather too much so, as will most of its family if planted in or- 

 dinary soil, and kept in the stove, or even in the green-house ; 

 but to flower it well it requires to be kept dry in the winter, 

 and brought into a higher temperature : after the blosoms 

 have begun to develop themselves, they will flourish well in 

 the green-house. It is a fine species and worthy of intro- 

 duction. {Pax Mag. Sept.) 



7. LfLiuM sANGufNEUM Lindl. Blood Red Lily (i^iliacese.) 



A hardy bulbous plant : growing eighteen inches high: with dark red flowers: appearing in 

 June : a native of Japan : increased by oflsets : grown in loam and leaf mould or peat. Bot. 

 Reg. 1S46, p. 50. 



This lily is said to be one of the discoveries of Siebold, who 

 introduced the superb lancifoliums, in his Japan expedition. In 

 general appearance, it comes near to our L. philadelphicum, 

 having an upright and quite dwarf habit, attaining only the 

 height of twelve or eighteen inches, and terminated with " its 

 large solitary orange red flower." It has proved perfectly 

 hardy in the garden of the Horticultural Society — and no doubt 

 it will prove as hardy with us as the L. japonicum or exim- 

 ium. It is readily propagated by offsets, thriving well in light 

 loam and peat with a little well decomposed manure. Mr. 

 Groom, who presented the bulbs to the Horticultural Society, 

 has succeeded in raising several hybrids between this and other 

 species, some of which are very handsome. We shall have 

 several of them in flower the coming spring, when we shall 

 endeavor to give a full account of them. {Bot. Reg. Sept.) 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Retrospective Criticism. 



Modesty. — Mr. Editor: I have been informed, either directly or by some 

 indirect way, through the Horticulturist, that one object of starting that 

 work in opposition to Hovey's Magazine was, that the latter was too much 

 given to extolling the Editor's own wares. I have just spent a few leisure 

 moments in looking over the first five or six numbers of Downing's new 

 magazine, and find (omitting reviews) seventeen instances where he has 

 referred to or named " our work on Fruits and Fruit Trees, ^^ and twenty 



