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also by the sunny season, it has flowered splendidly this 

 year, and is even finer than the one I had seen at 

 Ipswich. I think it is the better, like many other 

 things, for watering when the buds are formed. I see 

 in an un-modern gardening book that it only came to 

 England in 1847. We find no difficulty in propagating 

 it by division in spring. Cuttings strike easily in a 

 little heat, and form blooming plants in the same season. 



Phloxes have done very badly this year, whether 

 removed from the reserve garden or left alone. In very 

 dry seasons it is best to quickly cut them down; they 

 flower again well when the rain comes. Michauxia cam- 

 panuloides is flowering now for the second time. I have 

 never grown it before, and its first bloom was in June, 

 while I was away, so that I did not see it in its prime. 

 The seed, unfortunately, does not ripen here, but it seems 

 to me a plant worthy of all the trouble that biennials 

 give; and experiments should be tried in growing it. I 

 am now going to try it grown the second year in pots, 

 under glass, in a cool house, in the same way as Cam- 

 panula pyramidalis is grown. I expect it will be very 

 fine. When grown out of doors it should be moved from 

 the seed-bed into a dry, sunny place, and it wants as 

 much water as you can give it when about to flower. It 

 is figured in Vol. xvii of Curtis' 'Botanical Magazine,' 

 but the flower there depicted gives little idea of the 

 beauty of the whole plant, although the unusual shape 

 and loveliness of the flower itself are well rendered. 

 Michauxia tcMnatchewii (see Thompson's list) is new to 

 me and, I am told, good. 



The Belladonna Lilies, treated as described in my 

 first book, have flowered excellently, many having two 

 flower- stems from apparently the same bulb. I imme- 

 diately sent to Holland for two dozen more, as I believe 

 there has been a disease among them in some places and 



