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in the spring, care being taken not to allow them to 

 dry during germination. 



J. Wilkinson Elliot, of Pittsburg, Pa., gives this 

 description of a garden of lilies : 



^^A correspondent complains that we have told him 

 too often of the lawyer's garden; but it is still the 

 best garden in this vicinity, and a good garden cannot 

 be told about too often. 



^^Our friend, the lawyer, has a garden of Lillies. Many 

 other things he has in his garden — great banks of Mol- 

 lis and Ghent Azaleas that are worth a long journey 

 to see ; an entire hillside is covered with hybrid Rhodo- 

 dendrons and Kalmia Latifolia; Tulips, Daffodils and 

 Crocuses are everywhere in the spring, and the glori- 

 ous show of Japanese Irises in June is a sight not easily 

 to be forgotten — but he has Lilies by the hundred and 

 by the thousand, and in so many varieties that from 

 June until November there is always a fine display of 

 Lily fiowers. Such a garden ! By daylight it is splen- 

 did, by moonlight it is fairyland, and the air is filled 

 with fragrance. Such a garden to visit, as we do visit 

 it, and travel forty miles a dozen times a year, and 

 come away wdth our arms filled with great stalks of 

 Lily bloom; for this is a garden in which there are 

 always flowers to cut and to spare. It is not the mis- 

 erable garden of bedding plants in which its owner finds 

 it difficult to cut a little nosegay to give to a friend. 

 We wish you who are content to grow such common- 

 place things of so little beauty as Cannas, Geraniums, 

 Coleus and Alternantheras, could visit this garden of 



