322 Lilium Excelsum. 



Begonias are refreshingly new, and all blooming in early autumn 

 and winter with a profusion to please the most fastidious ; all of the 

 easiest possible culture in a temperature of forty degrees to sixty de- 

 grees in winter. They grow and flower most freely when renewed 

 from cuttings every spring. 



B. boliviensis^ a new feature, with large, pendent flowers, of a rich 

 coral color, and in great abundance. 



B. Sedeni^ similar to the former, with flowers of a rich crimson 

 color. 



B. glaucophylla scandens, a climbing species and a first-rate basket 

 plant. Its long, pendent shoots are just the article for window culture. 



B. Weltoniensis, the plant you saw two feet high and two feet wide, 

 of six months' growth, was a complete bouquet from the pot to the tip, 

 of a delicate pink color. 



Sphcerogyne latifolia^ — Keep off such names from us common-place 

 scribblers, — is a magnificent hot-house shrub from South America. Its 

 stem is covered with short, cinnamon-colored hairs, and furnished with 

 opposite leaves fourteen inches wide and sixteen inches long, three- 

 ribbed, with many small ribs diverging to its margin, having the ap- 

 pearance of Cyanophylluin magnificum, and its growth and culture 

 are similar to that plant. 



LILIUM EXCELSUM. 



By John C. Hovey, Cambridge, Mass. 



This species, though not new, is one of the finest in cultivation. It is 

 also found catalogued imder the name oi Liliu7n testaceum. 



Nothing is positively known regarding its introduction to gardens, 

 though it is believed to be one of the many fine plants introduced into 

 Europe from Japan, by Dr. Siebold, about 1840. It first flowered in 

 England in 1842, and was exhibited the following season at the June 

 show of the Royal Horticultural Society. 



The stem grows from four to five feet, and sometimes, under high 

 cultivation, even six feet in height, with scattered lanceolate leaves. 

 The flowers are pendulous, in whorls of from three to nine each, near- 

 ly flat, of a beautiful salmon buff", with bright scarlet anthers, thus 

 making a very fine contrast. 



