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our censures fthe month. But when we enumerat ted 
v few per adornments which our gardens boast 
ossoms often expand during October, 
nay be found even after the foggy month has set 
in, and this is Sternbergia lutea, the first of the 
Runn bulbs” of which we are nae 
A very old-fashioned aeae 
i mn Daffodil” of Parkin- 
b p Eagan from aipear and by whom i 
Thracia 
thought t it was formerly 
igr of‘ ‘yellow Colchi- 
title of ‘* autumn 
ise supported oa so 
° Bnglish name, althou 
Fom aats lland u 
: s French equivalent, Narcisse d’automne. 
Poe lossy lien cup is hardly that of a 
ee jeep eios 4 ated with the 
ame is so associa s 
breezy ¢ daysof s ring that it seems out of place among 
Tiva Not so the plant, how- 
rs 
for, like so many bulbous 
Dr. LINDLEY, 
tones which we are likely to meet with ; 
but, 
we shall be likely enough to 
iration in 
ce 
ure Lily (Vallota pur- 
ia Sya s its English name, A Soups barne: wae 
ers, the case of the Guernsey Lily, however, 
> remembered that the above account of its 
better known than it | 
introduction, a oaeh that usually accepted, is by no 
means the only one which i r has Sid 4 current. 
‘his may a seen by a refere ints a sketch of the 
history af the plant published by Dr. James Douglas 
1725, and afterwards i 
considerable doubt is thrown 
statement, and from which it would 
reread to red island was 
is generally su 
good authority, P ihat ‘the x 
from six bulbs, w. 
aid, upon apparently 
of plants originated 
had been —— to him 
and that these, after remaining withou 
three or four years, were thrown int 
o the no small astonishment ir possessor, That 
= as long the custom to send Guernsey Lilies from 
e island to which they owe their name is sho 
wn by 
x letter dated Reotitinber 26, 1748, rnc * spe pw 
in a recent volu ume of Notes and Queries, and i 
occu 
Lillys for your acceptance; th owers are very 
muc ed, and demanded by our quality in 
England, and none to be had but here, and blows 
this season of the year only. see th of 
to r To 
them ’tis by looking close to them on a dry day w 
the sun shines upon them ; they then resemble a tissue 
of gold.” 
(FROM A SKETCH MADE IN 1848.) 
berg and Kæmpfer, however, speak of it as 
i d state that the bulb is a by the 
laches tobe. aah nous—which indeed is signified 
1712, and it has psy been largelyimported from that 
country, wh 
ere i r and extensively 
grown, as it is iso ad the neighbourhood of Florence, 
where it is a ie ag flower. It was nen ka 
e fri a tem w 
E ae comprehensive sense by the older botantsis; ; 
but it is a native of the Cape region, from which we 
ny of our choicest b e only 
ant to the ce of apm: pr Pris preti 
ason 
y rene Tog B. M., 
DR. ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL. 
R. CAM PBELL was 0 
Darjecliag re 
its my v English i pon id arire * Campbell was one 
o, by administrative 
built up our em: tora in India. 
those who 
dencies and veg ase n 
there are other mps) 
of ibald Ca 
arn and 
others flocked in to form a population, and from 
a native army and aye econo. 
call mio the scanty revenue he t 
This obscure ieran e the summer residence of 
the governors of Beg; and might have become a 
ion, was by 
but both were r aa by ins glad ue 
h Luot his enemy. 
Sikkim, bit: naa 
of india, however, sent a fi 
cession 0 of territory 
tained that D arjeeling. pene the capital of a dis- 
ment demand 
reparation, and s was ob- 
trict of 2,000 square mi 
Ata later date Dr. Hooke r took an active interest 
and it is now a eans evenue, mp 
had, however, at iest moment when it was 
proposed to introduce Tea culture into India, appre- 
ciated its full im , He fi the 
ments at Darj in the end he an 
industry which and the products 
of which have made a name even in this 
The labourers supplied from the neglected 
tribes, which under the superintendent’s training havo 
become sgn yrs loyal subjects. sy 
esults have of course oceurred since 
any 
ampbell’s g eare but he must ever be re- 
Gata in Darjeeling as its real apr aan ae 
Terai, in whose jungle miserable es 
and to pass through was atai 
Cotton cultivation in the Terai, oo Wen which E ee 
great hopes. 
constant advocate of hill colonisation in 
aes eren the Minister in 1857: cgi in the 
ists 
oducing the same fru’ ts and 
podadig Calcutta ma new life, but sag te Ben 
men are now y engaged in the 
of Tea and i and in 
