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white, carmine, rose, and purple, renders the tout ensemble 
perfectly charming. Gradually lessen watering after the 
1st of October, and by November merely keep in mois- 
ture enough to preserve vitality; place them in the out- 
of-the-way part of the green-house, on a dry shelf, and at- 
tend to merely keeping in life till February, and then com- 
mence to sart them,” 
For a summer conservatory they are unequalled, occu- 
pying an otherwise nearly empty house, and delighting 
you with their graceful flowers all the season. 
Young plants turned out into the flower-garden in 
June, will continue to blossom until October; but they 
must be placed in the coolest spot in the garden, where 
they will receive the benefit of the shade during the mid- 
dle of the day or the hot sun will injure the bloom. 
Some of the new varieties are splendid. 
FUNKIA. —Day Lry. 
{A genus dedicated to a German botanist, named Funk.) 
Finkia ovata.—Blue Day Lily.—Is a plant with broad 
ovate leaves; flowers blue, in June and July; two feet 
high. 
F, subcordéta.—Formerly Hemerocallis or Funkia Ja- 
ponica.—White Day Lily,—has large, pure white, frag- 
rant flowers, which open daily in the month of August, 
on stems one and a half to two feet high; leaves broad 
ovate, nerved. 
These and other Day Lilies are hardy, easily propagated 
by division of the roots, and require little or no protec- 
tion. 
A variety of Funkia has elegant variegated leaves, 
highly ornamental, and well worthy of a place in the 
garden. The flowers are in one-sided racemes, about one 
