VII. LIST OF FLOWERS. 



because of its being a handsome and purely white flower, 

 corresponding with the national colour. It grows three 

 or four feet high, sending up a straight stalk, garnished 

 all the way up by narrow leaves, and terminated by se- 

 veral large white flowers hanging in clusters, and which 

 appear in July. It is hardy, cares little as to what soil 

 or situation is given to it, and multiplies rapidly by an 

 increase of its large scaly bulbous roots, which should 

 be separated every two or three years, and planted again 

 directly. If not thus often separated, the offsets become 

 so numerous, that, each sending up their stalk, the plant 

 ii over-large and unsightly. It is always handsome, how- 

 ever, in shrubberies, and is also handsome in the back 

 part of borders or in the middle of beds, when kept 



parted often, as recommended above. LILY, white 



water. Lat. Nymphea alba. Fr. Nymphfa blanc A hardy 

 perennial water-plant, common in England j growing in 

 muddy ponds, but never, as far as I have observed it, 

 coming spontaneously in any but stiff clay soils. I never 

 saw it so generally as in Lanchashire, in the neighbour- 

 hood of Preston, where there is scarcely a little pond that 

 is not covered over in the month of June with this very 

 beautiful large flower. In garden ponds it is common to 

 see them, and a great ornament they are to such places j 

 but they must be procured first, and planted next : two 

 operations of a most difficult nature 5 for you have to 

 dig up the root from the bottom of a pond, perhaps two 

 or three feet deep, and then you have to plant it under a 

 similar difficulty. To dig it up you must actually go into 

 the pond, feel for the stem of the plant, pursue it with 

 your hand to the ground, and then dig up as good a ball 

 as vou can round the roots. Suffer it to remain out of 



