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This blossomed with us in the month of 
July. It usually has but one flower, but 
being a strong specimen, ours produced 
two. It possesses a delicate fragrance, and 
is a native of China and Japan. We pre- 
served it in a frame in winter, being almost. 
hardy, and in April it was quite exposed, in 
a pot in loamy soil. The flower stem was 
two feet high. The root is a scaly bulb, 
larger than a walnut, and it may be in- 
We are indebted for this magnificen 
plant to the Hortieultural Society of Lon- 
- don, an institution which under the wise 
and enlightened guidance of its worthy 
and doubtless it will receive, the most liberal 
support. This Society bids fair to rescue 
the knowledge of Horticulture from the de- 
