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tutions of chivalry, have disappeared ; the traditional Spaniard of the drama and 

 novel, of high punctilious honor, and of grave and stately courtesy^ if he ever 

 existed, has played his part, and made his final exit from the stage ; railroads 

 have pierced the land in all directions, destroying its comparative isolation, and 

 assimilating its people to those around them : and although much of the romance 

 of a journey there has thus been destroyed, yet still numerous attractions remain ; 

 and in its Gaulish, Moorish, and mediaeval remains, in its grand old cathedrals, 

 and its galleries of paintings, among the best, if not the best, in the world, the 

 traveller there will find much to interest him, and occupy his time and attention. 



Paris, July 9, 1S68. yosepll S. Cabot. 



LiLlUM AURATUM. — As growers of this lily are again recording the bloom- 

 ing powers of their plants, you may be interested to learn something about the 

 present state of the one about which I wrote to you in 1866 and 1867. It now oc- 

 cupies a pot measuring twenty-four inches in diameter. The old bulb threw up 

 three stems, which are now about eight feet six inches in height, and are bearing 

 respectively eighty-one, thirty-four, and twenty-eight flower-buds. 



Besides these, there are four small offset-stems bearing eight flowers ; making 

 a total of a hundred and fifty-one. The flowers already expanded measure from 

 nine to ten inches in diameter. — W. Cross, in Gardiner'' s Chronicle. 



James Bland, Esq., Quarry Bank, Allerton, near Liverpool, has a plant of this 

 lily, which I think may be considered the finest in the county. It is in a sixteen- 

 inch pot, and has five large stems from seven feet six inches to eight feet high : 

 three of these have seventeen flowers each, and the other two fifteen each. 

 There are also nine smaller stems from three feet to four feet in hei^fht, bearin'j 

 amongst them nineteen flowers ; the whole making exactly a hundred flowers, 

 several of which measure thirteen inches across. — Thomas Davies, Jun., in 

 Gardeiier''s Chronicle. 



Ripe Wood vs. Green Wood for Layers. — A. M. Burns of Manhattan, 

 Kan., says that there is one thing that he professes to know something about, and 

 thinks that it will apply to all localities ; and that is the difference between the best 

 grape-vine plants and poor ones. We have in the West some who openly advo- 

 cate the propagation of grape-vine plants from green wood of the present sea- 

 son's growth. They say that the roots are more easily emitted from green than 

 from ripe wood. The best argument that he can advance to prove that they are 

 not as good as old- wood layers is to state, that, in 1859, he planted twenty-eight 

 Clintons : all propagated alike ; but some were from one-year-old wood, and oth- 

 ers from green wood. Those produced from green wood are all dead but two, 

 while those propagated from the year-old wood are healthy and vigorous. The 

 two vines from green wood are weak and sickly. — IVcstcrn Rural. 



[We have always had a prejudice against plants from green wood ; but we do 

 not see that the result of Mr. Burns's experiment is decisive. An experiment 

 in a single season, with so few as twenty-eight vines, decides nothing at all. Mr. 

 George W. Campbell of Delaware, O., has been very successful, we believe, in 

 raising very fine, well-ripened plants from green wood. — Ed.'\ 



