to our own experience, we shal] give that of Mr. Herbert, who says, 
“It is a very hardy species, endures the winter, and flowers in 
profuse succession during 5 or 6 months, in a bed covered with leaves, 
and with me it ripens seed by the bushel. It delights in wet, and 
will flower in a pond, but its fibres are rather disposed to rot in the 
water of a cold pond in the winter. In a warm situation it may 
remain always in water. Ido not know that its fibres would rot if it 
was growing in the soil under the pond. It might be advantageously 
placed by the edge of any ornamental piece of water, and would form 
a beautiful clothing for a small island, where it would afford thick co- 
vert for water fowl. Nursery gardeners might easily rear it from seed 
to sell by the hundred. A covering of leaves is not necessary to it, 
and its own dead foliage would give it a good deal of protection. I 
have had the neck of a bulb, which was left in a pot standing in a small 
pond, clasped tight by ice two inches thick for a fortnight, without 
its receiving any injury.” Amaryllidacee, 270. “The seed of the 
tropical species of Crinum will often lie for a very long time without 
vegetating. It may be made to grow immediately, by cutting off 
carefully, a portion of the fleshy mass, so as to expose the point of the 
embryo, after which the seed should be set edgeways in a small pot of 
earth, just covering the radicle. The operation requires however a 
cautious hand; for if the point is cut by the knife, the vitality of the 
seed is destroyed, and its direction is uncertain, though more likely to 
bend towards the hilum or scar than elsewhere. Small bits of the flesh 
should therefore be pulled off with the point of a knife rather than cut, 
till the embryo is discovered.” Ibid, p. 402. “All the hybrid Crinums 
raised between Capense and tropical species, which are now very nu- 
merous, are hardy enough to stand out of doors against the front wall 
of a stove ; where, if a mat is thrown over them in sharp frosts, they 
preserve much of their leaves through the winter, and from May to 
November continue throwing up a succession of flower-stems in great 
perfection. Crinum scabro-Capense bears the most beautiful flower ; 
Crinum pedunculato-Capense is of the largest stature.” Ibid, p. 356. 
Fivep Borpvers. “The vigour with which mules of the genus Cri- 
num, and many other plants, grew out of doors against the front wall 
of a stove, persuades me that a great variety of plants might with a 
little care be cultivated better in the open ground than under glass, if 
the border in which they are to grow were flued under ground, and a 
