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Amongst ornamental exotics which I believe Dr, 

 Moore is the first to grow outside in Ireland, are 

 varieties of that handsome Lily, Crinum, from 

 Southern Africa, which have justly attracted atten- 

 tion at Glasnevin for the last few years, and which I 

 have seen there in fresh bloom so late as the close of 

 November. 



I cannot omit to mention the extensive group 

 known as Orchids, than which no plants now attract 

 more general admiration in a high order of garden- 

 ing. Of terrestrial Orchids, which grow on or 

 in the ground, there are some kinds native to Ire- 

 land ; and I look forward to very interesting results 

 from hybridizing these with hardy foreign kinds of 

 which there are several of somewhat like character, 

 and much handsomer. 



The only Cypripedium indigenous in this kingdom 

 is C. cakeolus, which was last found in Yorkshire 

 some years ago ; but there are species native to woods 

 of Russian Asia and Eastern Europe, up almost to 

 the Arctic Circle, and other foreign species which 

 suit our climates, amongst which may be particularly 

 named C. spcctalik, from cool parts of North Ame- 

 rica, and which, being easy of culture, and of in- 

 crease by division of root, may soon be familiar 

 amongst us. 



Disa grandiflora, from the Table Mountain of the 

 Cape of Good Hope, is esteemed as the loveliest of 

 terrestrial Orchids ; and from the severity it endures 

 in its home, it is hoped that when the way of treat- 



