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{which are cheap) may be planted in spring, and taken 

 up in autumn, and kept in sand or other substance 

 dry, till the time for replanting in spring. They in- 

 crease freely and abundantly, and are easily divided. 

 Riehardias look well in or on moist edges of ponds or 

 other waters ; and I suppose the smaller kinds will 

 grow out of doors permanently wherever the old 

 larger kind thrives. I know of plants of the latter 

 several years in a garden border, and others likewise 

 in a pond. The spotted plant is well figured in the 

 Botanic Magazine for the year 1859, tit. 5140, and in 

 13th vol. of Flow des Scrres tit. 1343, where R. 

 hrtvtata also is described, whose flower is a greenish 

 yellow. 



Many of the lily group, and other bulbous-rooted 

 plants, look well in beds or on swards carpeted with 

 saxifrages or sedums. 



At close of winter, and in early spring, a very 

 showy lily, whose brilliant colour contrasts well with 

 the white of Richardias, namely, Imatophyllum, or 

 Imantophyllum, called from tjuaroc, of a strap, and 

 <f)v\\ov, a leaf, from its leaf being shaped like a 

 leather strap, is as easy of cultivation in a dwelling- 

 house as any plant. This I discovered as it were 

 accidentally. About the year 1868, a large tuft of 

 this plant, with several umbels of its bright orange- 

 tinted vermilion flowers, particularly attracted my 

 attention in a hot-house of my friend, the late Dr. 

 Charles Croker, in Merrion-square. Considering it 

 akin to Cl-ivea noMlis, which we knew had lived 



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