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Bessera elegans. With him it barely flowered the middle of Octo- 

 ber. It was so extensively advertised by the New York florists 

 that he thought it must do well. 



Mr. Endicott said that his did not flower at all. 



Mrs. Nelson said her experience and that of her friends was the 

 same as Mr. Endicott's. 



President Walcott had found Sternbergia lutea hardy without 

 protection ; it sends up leaves after flowering. 



Warren H. Manning recommended Amaryllis Ilallii. 



E. II. Ilitchings asked whether any one had cultivated anj- of our 

 native bulbs. 



Mrs. Nelson replied that she had tried Arethusa bulbosa and the 

 Yellow and Pink Cypripediums. 



Mr. Manning remarked that the Cypripediums have fibrous 

 roots. 



Mr. Endicott recommended Trillium grandijlorum. 



Mr. Jackson said that he had propagated Trillium grandijlorum 

 by division of the root ; it makes but little seed. He succeeds 

 with T. erytJu-ocarjmm in moderate shade with leaf-mould and cow 

 manure. 



Robert Manning said that he had found the Trillium grandi- 

 jlorum form seed freely, but he had not succeeded in causing it to 

 germinate, though it is plump and apparently perfect. He has 

 two plants which in May form hemispheres two feet in diameter, 

 each having sixty of the large white flowers. He thought it the 

 finest of all our native plants for garden culture, to which it sub- 

 mits perfectly. When a boy he cultivated successfuU}' Erythro- 

 nium Americanum (Dog-tooth violet) which has a bulbous root. 



Mrs. Nelson said that a friend of hers has a plant of Trillium 

 grandijlorum on a rockery, as large as a half-bushel. 



Mr. Hitchings said that a friend in Chelsea cultivates Trillium 

 grandijlorum successful!}', but has never succeeded with T. ery- 

 Ihrocarinim. 



The Chairman of the Committee on Discussion announced for 

 the next Saturday a paper on " The P'ood Question," by Edward 

 Atkinson. 



