AND THEIR CULTUEE. 



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shown in our sketch, is very proliferous, numerous little bulblets 

 being formed at the base of the bulbs, and among the wig-like 

 mass of roots at the base of the bulb. It has long been grown 



L. Davuricum (Europe, Daliuiia) ; natural size ; from a large imported bulb ; colour 



white. 



by the Dutch florists, by whom this proliferous habit of scale propa- 

 gation has doubtless been fostered. Another form I saw, which, 

 although identical with the last in aboveground growth, has a more 



L. Thuribcrgianum Wilsoni, well-grown flowering bulbs ; colour, yellowish while, 

 suffused purple or brown. 



