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pendent flowers, purely, warmly white, with their orange 

 markings, are to me far more heartening than any 

 Galanthus that ever sent up gelid-looking leaves and 

 opened its cold-coloured frost-flowers. Leucoium aestivum 

 is only less valuable than his earlier relations because he 

 comes at a less lonely time, when such as he are less 

 prized, and the exquisite Leucoium autumnale (or Acts 

 autumnalis), the Pink Snowdrop from Gibraltar and the 

 South, has never done any good here. Those Southerly 

 creatures don't ; I once had a present of the very rare 

 Narcissus viridiflorus from Gibraltar, but nothing more 

 ever came of it, despite attentions beyond number. 



