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a position is selected for it, the soil should be made light, and 

 deep, and free, by the addition of leaf-mould, peat, fibry loam, 

 and sand, as the nature of the ground may require, and the 

 surface should be mulched in summer with an inch or two of 

 decomposed manure or leaf-mould, to prevent excessive eva- 

 poration. It will also enjoy a deep bed of manure beneath 

 the roots, and put below the soil in which the young plants are 

 first placed, and is best planted in spring, the roots inserted six or 

 eight inches in the soil, and the young plants well watered. It 

 is best planted where the shoots may ramble among the spray 

 of shrubs, or ferns, or trailers ; but, as it must in the first in- 

 stance be placed on a cleared spot, it is well to put a few branch- 

 lets over the roots so that the young shoots may crawl over 

 them when they begin to grow. When established, they may be 

 allowed to take care of themselves, and it is much better to 

 let them have their own wild way than to resort to any kind 

 of staking or support, except that afforded by other subjects 

 growing near. 



Mr. W. Smythe, of Elmham Gardens, who grows the plant 

 remarkably well, writes to me : — " It increases almost as freely 

 from its thin white tuberous roots as Bindweed. It should be 

 planted in light sandy mould, is quite hardy, and likes a half- 

 shady situation. My plants do well on a fernery opening to 

 the south, having trees in front of about eight feet or ten feet 

 in height ; they will not thrive under trees. It seeds freely, and 

 the seeds, when ripe, are berry-like and of a beautiful blue ; but 

 they soon drop, and come up the next spring about the fernery 

 round the old plant. It increases and grows most luxuriantly 

 over large Box-trees six feet high, and over large ferns and 

 logs of wood, forming one mass of bloom, and all who see it 

 stop to admire it and ask its name. It ripens about August and 

 September, and the seeds come up the next spring if sown in 

 light sandy mould in pots, and placed in a greenhouse or pit." 



TULIPA CELSIANA. — Dwarf Yellow Tulip. 



A SPECIES having slightly concave glaucous leaves, the largest 

 nearly an inch across, and bright yellow flowers, much smaller 

 than those of the common bedding Tulips, and, when in clumps 

 and fully open, sometimes reminding one of a yellow Crocus ; 

 the outside of the petals is tinted with reddish brown and green. 



