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All the plants now growing in the gardens of Europe came 

 from, in part, those seeds and some from more recent importations 

 made by Messrs. Veitch. The first one which flowered in Europe 

 was in the establishment of Messrs. Cunningham, near Edinburgh. 

 A drawing of it was made in July, 1852, and afterwards engraved 

 for the Botanical Magazine, plate 4673. Col. Madden says that 

 this magnificent lily is common in the thick, humid forests of the 

 Himalaya, in the provinces of Kuniaon, Gurwhal and Bushur, in 

 a rich, black, vegetable mold, the bulb very near the surface; the 

 land at the elevation above the sea of 7,500 to 9,000 feet, and 

 which is covered with snow from November to April. The stems 

 commonly grow nearly five feet high, are hollow, and instru- 

 ments of music are made from them. 



It bears winter well. Dr. Wallich describes one of them which 

 grew about ten feet high. Mr. Cunningham's was as tall. The 

 flower stem was about twenty inches in length (508 millimetres,) 

 and bore twelve flowers. The one at Lamorron was near eleven 

 feet high, and bore eighteen large white lilies, inclining, — very 

 like the white lily, excepting that the inside of these flowers 

 were deep purple; and these lilies when fully blown, were about 

 seven inches .(14 decimetres) in diameter, and they exhaled a 

 delicious odor. 



MULTIPLYING SOME PLANTS BY THEIR LEAVES. 



By M. A. H. Floricultural Cabinet. 

 Some years ago we tried to multiply the Ornithigalum, (a lily 

 from Cape of Good Hope,) by a leaf bud of it. We cut it off just 

 below the surface of the soil while it was young and before the 

 flower stem began to appear. We put it near the edge of the pot 

 containing the mother plant. It grew well to bulbs and flowered. 

 We tried again without success, and concluded that the leaf must 

 be cut while in fresh growth. 



AGRICULTURE. 

 The earth attracts putridity from the air and from decaying 

 animal and vegetable matter, and we know its peculiar power in 

 this respect, and unless earth be super-saturated with putrid mat- 

 ter, it will confine it entirely. And it is universally admitted 

 that those who dig or plow up soil receive from it healthful ele- 

 ment, and after showers when we turn up the soil there rises from 

 it a delicious and wholesome smell. This odor is usually attri- 

 buted to the vegetables, but Reaumur says that a like fragrance 

 ris€S from the soil after the crop is removed, that it is not percep- 

 tible at much distance from the soil. The stooping farmer has it 

 in perfection when he turns up the soil. 



