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LiLiUM AURATUM. — The following notes show what has been done by high 

 culture with this splendid lily. Will any of our florists or amateurs go and do 

 likewise? As we introduced this new lily to cultivation (it having bloomed 

 in the vicinity of Boston before it flowered in Iingland), it is not creditable to be 

 so distanced in perfection of flower. 



Some very fine examples of this superb lily have been observed during the 

 year 1867. In the garden of Mr. M'Leod, Dalvey, near Forres, a plant has 

 produced six stems from one root, the tallest being upwards of eight feet high. 

 One stem bears nineteen, one eighteen, one sixteen, one eight, one nine, and 

 one four flowers, making in all seventy-four, the flowers all fully expanded, and 

 some of them measuring ten inches across. A plant grown in the garden of 

 Mr. A. Turner, Bowbridge, Leicester, has already won notoriety. This year it 

 is grown in a twenty-inch pot, and has four stems, the highest of which is nine 

 feet six inches high, and has nineteen flowers ; the second is eight feet six 

 inches high, divided at top into two parts, on which there is the extraordinary 

 number of sixty-six flowers ; the other two stems are four feet and two feet six 

 inches high respectively, and bear one flower each ; making a total of eighty- 

 seven flowers. The largest flower measures about one foot in diameter, and is 

 on the highest stem. A still finer plant has been grown in the garden at 

 Melchet Park, Romsey, where a bulb has produced two stems, eight and a half 

 feet high, one of them divided, — these bear one hundred flowers ; while a small 

 shoot from the base bears four more ; making one hundred and four flowers. At 

 Finedon Hall, on a smaller plant, grown in a five-inch pot, a bloom is recorded 

 as having measured exactly fourteen inches in diameter. 



Horse- Radish. — This is a very valuable plant ; and yet its cultivation has 

 been very much neglected. A few plants may be found about the garden of 

 almost every old homestead, receiving no notice except when some of it is 

 wanted for the table. It will grow in any good soil, but prefers one that is 

 moist and rich. It is very easily propagated from pieces of roots, planted in 

 rows, and covered five or six inches deep. If the land has been well prepared, 

 after the second year's growth it will be fit for use. The large, straight, smooth 

 roots are more valuable for the market, as there is less waste in grating it. The 

 time for using it is during the winter and early spring-months ; and it should be 

 taken up in November, placed in the cellar, and covered with earth to keep 

 it moist, and prevent it from shrivelling. It is said to possess healthful qualities, 

 which, added to its agreeable flavor, when eaten in limited quantities with 

 meats, all render it very desirable. Every owner of a garden should be sure 

 and raise enough of it for family use. 



.(Cthionema cordifolium. — This is one of the best and sweetest of rock 

 and alpine plants ; a bed of it in flower looking like a well-flowered mass of the 

 charming Attdrosace lanuginosa, and not rising more than three inches. The 

 flowers are most abundantly produced, and the plant quite hardy and perennial. 

 Nothing could be more suitable for rock-work, or the front edge of a choice 

 mixed border. It seeds freely ; and therefore no one will have any difficulty iu 

 procuring it. 



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