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last August, and is a welcome addition to a group which already contains 
such charming little plants as T. marginata, T. tortilis, T. Galeottiana , 
T. suavis, T. fragrans, and several other well known garden plants. The 
genus contains about 20 species, though several of them are seldom met with 
in collections, and the above list comprises the most showy and useful’ 
of them. If well grown they are extremely floriferous, and it is recorded that 
R. Warner, Esq., of Broomfield, exhibited a fine specimen of T. crispa — 
believed to be a variety of T. marginata — at the St. Petersburg Interna- 
tional Exhibition, in 1869, with upwards of a hundred expanded flowers, which 
must have been a splendid sight. This species is remarkable for its brightly 
coloured flowers, T. fortilis for its curiously twisted sepals and petals, and 
T. suavis for the hawthorn-like odour of its large and delicately coloured flowers. 
The species are not difficult of cultivation. They are best grown in pots, 
with good fibrous peat and sphagnum, and abundant drainage. They should 
also be elevated well above the rim of the pot, on account of their deflexed 
flower-scapes. Care should be taken to avoid over-watering, which except 
during the period of active growth is highly injurious. They will succeed best 
in the Mexican house, placed as near the glass as possible, so that the bulbs 
may become well matured, and thus bloom the more freely. The present 
species will doubtless succeed under these conditions. 
