148 THE TIGER FLOWER. [AUG. 



to procure offsets of crown-imperials, martagon 

 lilies, irises, and others of this description: 

 paeonies, also, should be planted now. 



I shall send, when I take them up, bulbs of 

 the magnificent Ferraria tigridia, (tiger flower,) 

 which I have succeeded in raising from seed so 

 well, that I had this year a large bed of flow- 

 ering plants of my own raising. Its flower is, 

 in my opinion, the handsomest among the bul- 

 bous-rooted, but, unfortunately, it is also the 

 shortest lived ; though it compensates for this, 

 in some measure, by producing daily, for nearly 

 three months, new flowers. I shall send, also, 

 one bulb of a very handsome yellow variety of 

 this plant, which is called Ferraria conchiflora. 

 I send, likewise, the arethusa bulbosa; it flow r - 

 ers in June, and has an elegant purple flower. 



You may begin now to transplant and propa- 

 gate most sorts of herbaceous roots, by dividing 



