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as many as twenty flowers. In short, though we have 

 known it but a short time, it can be confidently recom- 

 mended. It must be planted deep, as it forms an 

 unusually strong mass of stem-roots. 



Good reports of it come from peaty loam in Wigton- 

 shire, light loam in Nottinghamshire, heavy loam in 

 Carnarvonshire, light, dry soil in Kent, red loam in 

 Devon, and yellow loam in Sussex. We had only one 

 report of it where it was not completely successful, 

 from a hungry gravel in Middlesex. 



