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In planting the bulbs it will be necessary to divest them 

 of all offsets, otherwise the plant will not flower, for the 

 offsets derive too much nourishment from the main bulb, 

 and prove injurious. The offsets should be planted in a 

 bed by themselves, and in the third season they will flower. 

 When the frost destroys the foliage in the fall take them 

 up, and place them in a room to dry, previous to packing 

 them away for the winter ; or the bulbs can be packed in 

 dry sand, and then are not so likely to be injured by frost. 



This plant is well calculated for the parlor, as it will 

 bear much confinement in a room, and is not injured if 

 kept from the window while flowering, and when done it 

 may be turned out of the pot, without disturbing the ball, 

 into the open ground, which will save much trouble. When 

 this bulb is planted in a moderate sized garden, after the 

 rays of the sun have declined, it will be filled with fra- 

 grance, refreshing the mind, in the cool of the evening, 

 after the avocation of the day is spent 



TEA. 



(THEA CHINENSIS.) 



This is an evergreen shrub, a native of China and 

 Japan, cultivated to a greater extent in China than the 

 latter place. It being so near related to the Camellia 

 Japonica, the treatment of one is also applicable to the 

 other. In the green-house this plant seldom exceeds six 



