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them into bloom ; perhaps they mourned the 

 old lady's absence who had planted them and 

 watched them and smelled them and compli- 

 mented them, and given slips of them to her old 

 lady neighbors who knows ? I may add that, 

 since being transplanted, the plants have become 

 re-established, and now flower with their former 

 luxuriance. In these same tumble-down farm- 

 steads flourish many a colony of the double 

 poet's narcissus, which neither you nor I can 

 grow under trees or in the open border half so 

 successfully. 



H. Kwanzo variegata is a large-leaved plant, 

 attractive for its variegated foliage. H. Kwanzo 

 ft. pi. is a robust species, preferable to H. 

 fulva. H. graminea is a smaller flava in 

 flower and foliage, and would be desirable were 

 it not for its bad habit of spreading much at the 

 root. I have found this almost ineradicable 

 where it has obtained a strong foothold. The 

 least particle of its white rootlets, under favor- 

 able circumstances, forms a plant if left in the 

 ground, and it soon spreads and undermines its 

 neighbors. None of the species equals the old- 

 fashioned flava, one of the most satisfactory 

 and beautiful of hardy flowers. It should be 

 planted along the borders of a long drive-way, 

 to realize its superb grace and beauty. 



