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F a'lba (white. American). 1. White. May. 

 N. Afner. 



cu'prea (copper-coloured). l. Copper. July. 



Mexico. 18:i4. 



imperiii'lis (mnim-imperial). 4. Dark yellow. 



April. Persia. 1596 



flu'aa (yellow -flowered). 4. Yellow. 



April. Persia. I5g6. 



ru'bra, (red-flowered). 4. Red. April. 



Persia. 1596. 



sca'ndens (climbing). Yellow. April. Siberia. 



1827. 



Kotschya'na (Kotscby's). . April. Hazart- 



schall. 1844. 



lunceola'tn (spear-head-/eaJ). }. Dark 



purple. May. Kamtschatka. 1/59. 



latifo'Ha (broad-leaved). 1. Ked. May. Cau- 



casus. lt>!>4. 



leuca'nthn (white-flowered. Russian). 1. 



White. May. Siberia. 1822. 



Lusita'nica (Spanish). 1. Brown, purple. 



June. Spain. 1825. 



lu'tea (yellow-flowered). 1 . Yellow. May. 



Caucasus. 1812. 



melea'gris (Guinea-fowl-like). 1. Purple. 



May. Britain. 



meleagroi'des (meleagris-like). 1. Purple. 



May. Siberia. 1824. 



Messane'nsis (Messina). 1. Brown, purple. 



June. Italy. 1825. 



mi'tior (smaller). l. Purple-spotted. April. 



Altai Mountains. 18HO. 



nervo's'i (nerved- leaved). 1$. Dark purple. 



May. Caucasus. 1826. 



ni'gra (black). 1. Yellow. Purple. May. 



Pyrenees. 1596. 



obli'qua (txiste A- leaved). 1. Brown, purple. 



April. Caucasus. 



oxype'tula (sharp-petaled). 1$. Purple. June. 



Pindari. 



Pc'rsic t. ( Persian). 1|. Brown. May. Persia. 



i ^e. 



mi'nima (least. Persian). J. Brown. May. 



Persia. 1596. 



prce'cox (early-white). 1. White. May. Europe. 



pudi'ca (chaste). 1. Purple, yeliow. May. 



N. Amer. 1824. 



Pyrena'ica (Pyrenean). !. Dark purple. 



June. Spain. 1605. 



Ruthe'nica (Russian). 1. Purple. May. 



Caucasus. 1826. 



tene'lla (slender). 1. Purple. May. Cau- 



casus. 1826. 



tulipifo'lia (tulip-leaved). 1. Brown, purple. 



May. Crimea. 1822. 



verticil/a' ta (whorlt-d). 1. Purple. April. 



Crimea. 1823. 



FRITILLARY AS A FLORIST'S FLOWER. 

 Propagation : by Offsets. The offsets are 

 produced round the old bulbs; these 

 should be detached every third year when 

 the bulbs are taken up, and be planted in 

 a bed of light, rich earth, each variety by 

 itself, where they may remain till they 

 are large enough to flower. Then take 

 them up, and plant them in October, 

 either in 5i-inch pots, three or four bulbs 

 in a pot, or plant them in patches near 

 the front of the mixed flower-border. 

 The above remarks apply only to the 

 smaller kinds of Fritilla'ria. The noble 



F. imperia'lis, when the bulbs attain a 

 certain size, produces two flower-stems, 

 and each stem perfects a bulb. They 

 may then be taken up, divided, and re- 

 planted. This species, on account of 

 flowering early, may be planted when 

 divided into beds in the grouped flower- 

 garden, which they will highly ornament, 

 and will die down early enough to be 

 succeeded by summer flowers. This 

 species is too large for pots. 



Soil. The Crown Imperial, with its 

 varieties, should be planted in a deep, 

 rich soil, well drained. If the soil is nut 

 rich, it must be made so by the addition 

 of a good dressing of well-decomposed 

 manure. The stems send out, just above 

 the bulbs, alarge number of young strong 

 shoots. The plants will be benefited in 

 that stage by a top-dressing of very de- 

 cayed dung placed close to the stems. 



If the smaller species be cultivated in 

 pots, the proper soil for them will be a 

 compost of turfy loam, peat, and vegetable 

 mould, in equal parts. 



Growing Season. All the smaller kinds 

 of the Fritillary will flower beautifully in 

 pots. Pot them in October in 5^-incli 

 pots, four bulbs in each, in a light, rich 

 compost. Plunge the pots in coal-ashes 

 in a bed, and protect them through the 

 winter with hoops and mats. There they 

 may remain till they flower, and then be 

 removed into the greenhouse. When in- 

 tended to bloom in the open ground, plant 

 them in patches in the mixed flower- 

 border. 



Hesting Season. As soon as the bloom- 

 ing season is over and the leaves decayed, 

 take the bulbs up, and keep them in a 

 cool, rather moist place, till the season 

 for planting arrives again. 



FROG ORCHIS. Gymnade'nia vi'ridis. 



FROST. If a plant be frozen, (and 

 though some defy the attacks oi frost, 

 others are very liable to its fatal influence, ) 

 death is brought upon them as it is in 

 the animal frame, by a complete breaking 

 down of their tissue ; their vessels are 

 ruptured, and putrefaction follows. 



The following contingencies render a 

 plant especially liable to be frozen : 



First. Moisture renders a plant sus- 

 ceptible of cold. Every gardener knows 

 this. If the air of his greenhouse bo 

 dry, the plants within may be submitted 

 to a temperarure of 32 without injury-, 

 provided the return to a higher tempera- 

 ture be gradual. 



