HE previous chapters have treated at length 

 on the culture of those bulbs most gene- 

 rally grown ; but there are still many 

 which are little known, and rarely found 

 in cultivation. To treat of these fully 

 would occupy too much space ; but our 

 work would be manifestly incomplete did we fail to mention 

 them. A large proportion of them have never been in cul- 

 tivation in this country ; and some are known in England 

 only by descriptions of specimens once in cultivation, but 

 now lost. Of some we can speak fully, having grown and 

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