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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1874. 
AOU ARETE FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
MONDAY, Sept. 21— Sale of Dutch Bulbs, at Stevens’ Rooms, 
TUESDAY. Sept. 2 ie — pod tevens Rooms and Imported Orchids, 
Sale Ot Hyacint 
Eo tch 
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Sale nage? a d Aree T 
Imported’ 
a teed Ferns, 
THURSDAY, Sept. 24 Amaryllis, rchids, at 
L Stevens’ Hoon 
SATURDAY, — 2C— Sale of Dutch Bulbs, at Stevens’ Rooms, 
1 present is an. opportune season for a 
few words on LILIES and LILY CULTURE, 
inasmuch as the earlier ripening kinds are now 
ready for being transplanted for another 
owth. The Lilies may well claim 
some consideration « on DEA of their wan 
are at the. present rese 
ultivators. — 
e “examples “of Citi auratum, to which 
we flared at p. 329, indicate tolerably well the 
; „which is a natural peat, with a cool 
Bottoms” but not water-logged, the Lilium aura- 
ed 
| hence the advantage of a naturally cool and 
pee 
moderately moist subsoil. Hill 
soil is a natural peat, improved by cultivation, 
but in artificially prepared beds of peat and loam 
in about the proportions above indicated, and 
at least 3 or 4 feet deep, Mr. wisi also 
succeeds in growing this Lily to very great 
We may, therefore, conclude that 
oubt on this point—a deep 
bed of soil, consisting pores wholly or r principally 
. The con- 
health and vegetative development of the plant 
a mild atmosphere free 
v 
wn 
TE 
o 
pr 
oO 
forms 
the most favourable, especially for strong bloom- 
ing plants, whose magnificent heads of bloom 
render them very liable to suffer injury from ex- 
Low situations, not wet ones, where a 
all, for the season—though, py A Bpa A if the 
t too the 
ence says, 
plants have ek planted four years, and have 
each year gone in strength 
and beauty ; 
the same thing ; and Mr. WATERER’S plants— 
such of them as are left in the ground 
idisturbed by purchase asers—bloom with the 
utmost vigour year after year. Nothing beyond 
esired ; only it must t be remem- 
does not get all its requirements ; 
wireworm about it is pretty certain pa attacked 
Hence, if the plants 
replanted in the best possible manner. 
Conditions of this sort suit not only the 
t the 
it is plentiful enough for out 
very similar ro go keen congenial to 
all of the longiflorum 
All these, moreover, eed remarkably well in 
pots under gs in a cool greenhouse tempera- 
tute. "Ihe s should be deep rather than 
wide, and well aiei, to prevent water-logging 
of the soil, and the compost may be about one 
pas of rich loam to two. puds; of bry peat. 
hen grown and bloomed s 
y in pots, 
Eer 
‘po 
= A 
to i and there is a great variety. ‘among g them, 
= blooming season through sev everal of 
the icum, Hum 
boldtii, sai pardalinum are fine ade for either 
r border culture, and well deserve all the 
trouble which may be taken with them tae cana- 
dense and its varieties are both interesting and 
it 
reum 3a 
tinct and beautiful eae but they are not yet 
oo so much to 
o point out the foregoing considerakioni in 
nira to Lily culture. 
p TS Diegon oi te i 
cations for upw of 1000 have bi ade. 
share capital of the company, which was 
& 250,000, has oe rags up, and is now increased 
Fou of the 80 ae 
1,000, 000. 
D iaki in the ee as a a garden 
ads and streets will be Sinai edt eae 
induce- 
ation. otis 
whe be put in pro- 
but this ceremony will be purely formal, as it 
er MajesTY to lay the memorial 
stone early next ete on. 
— AZARA INTEGRIFOLIA VAR. VARIEGATA 
originated some years ago in the Royal Gardens, 
Kew. zos gerer against the wall o the new 
range, stete appears to thrive, a i 
to live bi tight protection = winter. es: 
but slow The leaves are orbicular or 
obovate, ai Haly mii dg with 
e rather gozdi than of 
hu soo aro 
orms an evergreen shrub in 
is native at Conception in Chill 
—— A report by Commander eget upon the 
Deposits on the islands of Lobos de mesic 
pe (in con 
n 
the of H.M.S. Petre 
there y were no inhabitants, except a few Indian fisher- 
men, from w no information tion could be. gain 
The island i is we mi iles long, and “in | parts thre 
s of guano there are a considerable 
broad ; 
distance ra Roep i are estimated to amount to 
ooo tons. The working Pot th th 
shortly be commenced by the Guano Shipping Com- 
at i, and 100 es bourers ha 
Lobos de 
Afuera, under a contract with th ian Govern- 
me hi mpany ves 85 cent. per 
ton shipped, and ma naana expense of all the neces-~ 
‘ks, suc ing pie ing tramways, 
making shoots, &c. The estimated eee et 
,000 ae ' empl Shippiñg 
is ie fe ola 
—— n 
a member of an ex a eresting 
of AROIDEA, is flowe in the cool Orchid-house’ 
at Kew. It is remar deenble from the spadix being 
rious genus" 
“Ue 
THICARPA PLATYSPATHA of WENDLAND, i 
and cu 
t 
entirely adnate to the spathe. The abo is of Arum- 
like habit, growing about 8 inches high. The leaves 
are broadly omas oria light green, and ap an the 
petiole and blade = l 
m Pose Se ok 3 the sabe 8 
atej opens. 
two or three rows, rae ig on the o 
are the females, each of which have three ‘or. oe ae 
inodia on their i side. -the 
pe is prostrated e spathe sl t not 
as in bud. It closes “ag a giana age manner, and 
ecomes tight] -= This plant agrees per- 
fectly with specim of . sagittata, ey except 
that the spathe is “slighly broader. It is a native 
Brazil, and thrives well with cool Orchid treatment, 
— “Jottings in Hawke’s Bay” (New Zealand) 
is the title of an interesting a articlei in The Otago Daily 
imes, from which = x t the following on e 
THISTLE AS AN ace Paces TREMEN 
for English grass :— 
“ A large potion o vie province is already t 
s, but there uantity of Fern la 
hed and wai sing: ne ais laid: d down. 
something 
