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These beds make the difference between a greenhouse 

 and a conservatory. When I speak of a bed I mean that, 

 though the floor of the greenhouse is tiled, the plants are 

 planted in the ground. This is very essential in any con- 

 servatory, whether large or small. On the north side, facing 

 south, is planted out what has now grown into a huge plant 

 of Henry Jacobi. It has been there some years, and is cut 

 down very severely about this time every year. Next to it 

 is a quaint plant, one of the Platyceriums, growing on a 

 piece of board hung on the wall, which requires nothing 

 but occasional watering. Below that are two French 

 flower-pots that hang flat against the wall and are filled 

 with Maidenhair. A plant of the sweet yellow Jasmine and 

 a plant of pale Heliotrope, both in the ground, are all the 

 wall will hold on this side. In the middle of the other bed 

 next the west wall, and also planted out, are a large sweet- 

 scented double-white Datura; a white Niphetos Eose, 

 which runs up a pole to the glass roof ; a common Passion- 

 flower, to make shade in summer ; and a blue Plumbago 

 capense. By the side of the door, growing up a wire, is a 

 dark green Smilax, that has been there for many years and 

 gives no trouble. The other things are in pots, and are con- 

 stantly changed and moved. I grow both Pancretiums and 

 Crinums ; they are indeed worthy of every attention, and 

 ought to be in all carefully selected collections. They are 

 so sweet, so delicate, and so lovely ! all that we prize most 

 in single flowers. There are a great many kinds of both 

 Pancretiums and Crinums. (See Johnson's ' Gardener's 

 Dictionary.') Even the hardier Crinums in pots require 

 heat at the growing-time, and they often have to be grown 

 for several years after they are bought before they flower 

 at all ; but, once started, they seem to flower each year. 

 I have a Crinum moorci out of doors which makes its 

 leaves every year, but has not yet flowered. 



I try to arrange the plants in groups in this conserva- 



