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Mortlake is called SnakeVhead Meadow. Some call it 

 Narcissus Caparonius, from Noel Caparon, who first disco- 

 vered it : he was an apothecary, then dwelling in Orleans, 

 but murdered soon after in the massacre of France. The 

 French call it le damier [the chess-board] : the Italians, 

 giglio variegato ; fritiliaria scaecheggiata [chess-board 

 fritillary]. 



Gerarde informs us that " the curious and painful her- 

 balist of Paris, John Robin," sent him many of the plants 

 for his garden, and that " they were greatly esteemed for 

 the beautifying of our gardens, and the bosoms of the beau- 

 tiful." 



This lily flowers in April and May. The three last 

 may be preserved and increased in the same manner as 

 the first ; only they do not take so much room, and the 

 roots will not keep so long out of the ground. If they 

 cannot conveniently be planted sooner, they should be 

 laid in sand, to prevent their shrinking. They should be 

 removed every second year ; will bear the open air ; and 

 should have just water enough to prevent drought. 



FUCHSIA. 



MYRTOIDE^E. TETANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



So named in honour of Leonard Fuchs, a noted German botanist. 



THIS is a most beautiful little plant ; the leaves are of a 

 fine green ; their veins tinged with red : the flowers pen- 

 dulous, and of a brilliant scarlet. " The Scarlet Fuchsia," 

 says Mr. Marty n, u is a plant of peculiar beauty, pro- 

 ducing its rich pendent blossoms during most part of the 

 summer : the petals in the centre of the flower are par- 

 ticularly deserving of notice; they somewhat resemble a 

 small roll of the richest purple-coloured riband." 



It is a native of Chili. It will not bear the open air in 



