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poorest and dryest lime-soil. But it likes good feeding.' 

 I think that description sounds as if it were, worth 

 trouble to produce. Of course he meant, when he took it 

 up, that he grew it under glass. 



Two years ago I bought a plant of Holboellia lati- 

 folia, and planted it in the ground in my cool greenhouse, 

 where it is doing quite beautifully, and is now covered 

 with buds. It is a delightful plant for a cool greenhouse 

 creeper, as the fragrance of its white flowers is delicious, 

 almost exactly like Orange flower ; and it is so nearly 

 hardy it will do out of doors against a wall in many parts 

 of England. I shall try it here when I have struck some 

 cuttings. It is often called erroneously Stauntonia latifolia. 



I have just brought into the conservatory next the 

 drawing-room from the cool house in the kitchen garden 

 an interesting panful of one of the Moraeas. They seem 

 a large family ; all from the Cape of Good Hope. A piece 

 was given me by someone who called it M. fimbriata. It 

 has not been touched for two years, and was well baked 

 all the summer, is now healthy and growing, and has four 

 bloom-spikes ; last year it only threw up one. The flower 

 is like a small delicate Iris of a lovely cold china-blue 

 colour. The growth is quite different from that of an 

 Iris. The stalk has a graceful bend, and a branching end 

 with several buds, as is the case with so many of the 

 Cape bulbs. The buds open one after the other as the 

 flower dies. They will do when picked and in water. 

 My Crinum Moorei I have had for three or four years in 

 a large pot. It makes its leaves in February, and throws 

 up without fail its enormous brown flower-stem. It is 

 beginning to open now its lily-like flowers ; these, like 

 the buds of the Morcea fimbriata, flower in succession, but, 

 as each one lasts about a week in bloom, the flowering 

 period is extended for a considerable time. It is well fed 

 while growing with liquid manure. Its healthy, strong 



