Lslia 



has taught me that my triumphs were due to some 

 imperceptible accident. It likes a bare block 

 certainly, but that is troublesome. The pseudo- 



LJiLTA 5IAJALIS. (One-third natural ifize.) 



bulbs ripen Ijetter if turned out-of-doors and ex- 

 posed to full sunshine from July until the cold 

 weather sets in. Mexico. 1838. 



Monoj)h.ylla (single-leaf). — A tiny plant, bearing a 

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