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should be placed where it may be seen by itself. 

 This species varies not a little in the character of 

 its flowers, some being larger and deeper-colored 

 than others, and having the petals more freely 

 spotted ; it is one of the easiest of lilies to raise 

 from seed. L. colchicum does well in the open 

 sun, but grows larger in partial shade, where it 

 also holds its flowers and foliage better. 



The voracious rose-beetle is becoming more 

 and more omnivorous. Prompt to appear with 

 the first white Madame Plantier rose, his armies 

 soon pounce upon the white paeonias, which 

 would be utterly ruined were he not kept in 

 check. Last year he added the white Iceland 

 poppy and Spiraea filtpendula to his bill of fare, 

 and to-day I find him attacking the colchicum 

 lilies. One can not gather a bucketful and toss 

 them into one's neighbor's garden, for they would 

 only fly back again. My neighbor, who lets his 

 chickweed and dandelions go to seed, is, I think, 

 the main cause of their increasing numbers, for 

 he never lifts a finger to destroy them. 



Siberia contributes one of the smallest and 

 earliest of the lily family in L. tenuifolium, pret- 

 tier as a cut-flower than when growing out of 

 doors, where its many wide-branched blooms 

 and sparse leafage on slender stalks give it a top- 

 heavy appearance. Its small vermilion, wax- 



