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be standing close by, in spoonfuls. When the sugar 

 is all added and dissolved, it will be necessary to 

 take off the rising scum with a flat sieve-spoon, very 

 well scalded and cleaned previously; and by placing 

 a little jeUy on a saucer it will be seen by the consistency 

 when it has jellied. As soon as there is a sign of this 

 take the pan off the fire, let it stand five or ten minutes, 

 and fill the jelly glasses, which should previously have 

 been well sulphured, and be standing ready face down- 

 wards. Next day they should be covered with rounds of 

 paper soaked in brandy. Half a teaspoonful of brandy 

 should be sprinkled over each glass, and then they should 

 be tied or gummed up in the usual way. 



July 8th. — I consider no trouble too great, whether the 

 garden be large or small, to grow the beautiful stately 

 Madonna Lily {Lilium candidum). It requires very 

 different treatment from other Lihes, and flourishes in 

 rich, heavy soils in full sun, where many Lilies would 

 fail. Gardening books often tell you it is fatal to move 

 these Lilies, but I think this has arisen from gardeners 

 moving or disturbing them when they have ' done ' their 

 borders in October or November, and when the Lilies have 

 made an autumn growth; moving them then is fatal. 

 When I used to leave them alone, they made an excellent 

 top growth in spring, but dried up and died down 

 without flowering. What I now do when they begin to 

 die down some time this month, whether they have 

 flowered or not, is to dig them up carefully with a fork, 

 remove all offsets, re-make and manure the ground well, 

 mixing with it some brick rubbish or chalk, and then 

 replace the large bulbs, planting them rather deep, and 

 not too close together. In this way every bulb flowers. 

 A Uttle liquid manure helps them to open well when they 

 are in bud the following June. The small offsets are 

 put into a nursery apart, and many of them will flower 



