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healthily and bloomed freely in a rather exposed 

 place in my dwelling-house, he gave me one or two 

 roots, which have grown into several, living about 

 seven months of the year in a room, flowering in 

 March or April, and the other months plunged out 

 of doors with Richardim, VaHotas, &c. 



For rooms, halls, areas, and other places in and 

 about houses in Dublin, and, I presume, in most 

 parts of Ireland, the blue African lily, Agapanthm 

 umbellatiis, cannot be too strongly recommended. 

 Every summer, for a quarter of a century out of 

 doors in Dublin, it has sent its flower-stems well 

 above its foliage, with trusses of bright blue blossom, 

 in shape much like the Imatophyllum. This lily 

 grows well in strong loam, with sand and leaf-mould 

 rammed pretty tightly. ImatophyUum likes more pot 

 room, with good, strong, rich soil. One variety is of 

 -somewhat deeper red than others, and more admired. 



The Scarborough lily, with the varieties Vallota 

 purpurea, V. p. eximea, and V. p. major, are a beau- 

 tiful lily, and particularly well-adapted for green- 

 house, frame, and window culture. They are not 

 expensive, and increase freely. 



Many kinds of bulbous-rooted and other liliaceous 

 plants may be flowered under somewhat like treat- 

 ment. ScUlas, from the azure blue of Siberia to the 

 bright tiny native of a few of our own hills, and 

 some of creamy white, are a very pretty group. 

 Small varieties suit well round hyacinths, tulips, 

 and other bulbs in window boxes and other glazed 



