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Tigrinum Splendens is of course the future Tiger Lily of our gardens. 

 I saw a splendid specimen at Woodborough, and expect to learn much 

 from that garden in the future. The double Tiger Lily is a grand plant 

 when properly grown, and I think well of the form called Tigrinum 

 Erectum ; the flowers being set at right angles with the stem, appear 

 very showy. I was much gratified by the sight of a glorious plant of 

 Giganteum, with fan-tail stem, growing in Mr. Morgan's garden at 

 Cardigan. This plant is in strong loam, and is always left to itself, young- 

 bulbs taking the place of the exhausted growths. It was growing in the- 

 full sun, in front of a greenhouse ; and the Belladonna Lilies later in the 

 year were a perfect picture ; but mine are quite a failure ; I believe our 

 climate at Bingham, is too cold for these Amaryllids and for Giganteum^ 

 though I mean to give both a fair trial. I have planted some bulbs of 

 Auratum in silt brought down by a neighbouring stream, to see how that 

 will suit them. For these bulbs I removed nearly a ton of soil from my 

 garden, and in its place introduced an equal quantity of this silt. I 

 believe the Californian Lilies would grow vigorously in this soil, and 1 

 mean to try the Washington Lilies in it. I saw some fine spikes of these 

 Lilies at Glasnevin, but the bloom was past its best. Again, let m& 

 advise all cultivators to grow in turfy loam, L. Excelsum, for the backs of 

 herbaceous borders, and not to be content till they are 7 feet high. 

 Other Lilies for the herbaceous border are Auratum, Tigrinum, Splen- 

 dens, Candidum, Vmbellalum, Incomparable, and Broivnii" Frank Mil'es 7 

 The Garden, February 3rd, 1877. 



" I live upon solid chalk rag, with a 3 feet deep super-soil of sticky grey 

 clay, which is like putty in winter, and baked as hard as a brick in 

 summer. I am perpetually being burnt or frozen up ; and yet the white 

 Lily (L. Candidum) makes a gorgeous show, unless we have some late 

 spring frosts ; L. Testaceum, Martagon, White Martagon, and Tigrinum 

 nourish ; Croceum, Bulbijerum, and Pyrenaicum do fairly well ; I have 

 succeeded in getting Chalcedonicum, Pomponium, Pardalinum, Superbum, 

 Auratum, Dalmaticum, and Thunbergianum to flower ; and Humboldtii 

 comes up healthy and strong but goes off when about a foot high. I have 

 just been taking out the soil of a narrow bed, nearly 3 feet deep, and 

 filling it with a mixture of peat, leaf-mould, cocoa-refuse, silver sand, and 

 yellow loam, the top spit consisting of old pasture and the ant hills thrown 

 up 011 the only boggy field we have in the parish, and in this I mean to* 

 plant all the rarer kinds I can procure, together with Amaryllis Formo- 

 sissima, Vallota Sanguinea, Hedychium, Gardnerianum, &c., covering all the- 

 more delicate sorts with cocoa-refuse during- the winter months." Rev. 

 Harpur Creivc, Drayton Beauchamp, Tring, Garden, vol. 8., p. 530. 



The soil at Colchester, on the hills on which the town stands, is 

 light and very dry a well in my garden, 40 feet deep, never holds 

 any water. In the valleys the soil is cool and loamy, a river mean^ 

 dering round one half of the town. The rainfall average is among 



