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of those things you wish would die quietly and make 

 room for a finer plant ; and yet you do not quite like 

 boldly to uproot and destroy it. Erythroniums are, 

 of course, hardy enough, and their marbled foliage 

 and pink, white, and yellow flowers are pleasant in 

 spring. Eucomis O'Brieni and E. punctata are both 

 hardy, and their spikes of green and brown in the 

 case of punctata topped with leaves have a quiet 

 charm of their own. They cannot, however, be called 

 showy, but are worth a spare corner. Freesias will 

 grow and seed freely against a warm wall ; but they 

 flower late, when you don't want them, and are better 

 in pots. It is a pleasant thing to see scented acres 

 of their pale lemon and white blossoms making the 

 sunshine fragrant about Hyeres in March. Galtonia is 

 pretty hardy. It goes well in masses with the common 

 scarlet gladiolus brenchleyensis. Both can safely be 

 left to weather winter in the ground with me, but 

 I plant rather deep. I much regret to find that very 

 lovely mite, geissorhiza, is not hardy. She must be 

 grown in pots under a cold frame. I think our 

 winter wet is too much for her. But there is no 

 lovelier little irid than G. Rochensis, the plaid ixia, 

 as it used to be called. The petal tips are purple, 

 then comes a ring of pale colour, and the heart of 

 the flower is crimson. Twice only I flowered it out 

 of doors in successive years. Then my few bulbs 

 expired. G. alba I tried to flower, but failed. Geis- 

 sorhiza blooms in May, and is well worthy of pots. 

 Gelasine azurea, another irid, is hardy, but not worth 

 growing in my experience, for the flowers are small 



