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attention than they have as yet obtained. Their flowers 

 are ^ showy and fragrant, and there are in cultivation 

 about a dozen species and varieties, all, highly ornamental. 

 The commonest of the series are the yellow (Hemetocallis 

 Havd) and the copper [H. fulva). Amongst the many 

 good things secured to us by the late Mr. Robert Fortune 

 — most fortunate of botanical travellers— was the Japan 

 species {H. kwanso), of which there are two or three 

 varieties. One of these, called Kwanso flore plena, has 

 green leaves and double yellow flowers ; the other, called 

 Kwanso flore joleno foliis variegatis (which, if not long 

 enough, may be lengthened by prefixing the generic 

 name Hemerocallis) , has splendidly variegated- leaves and 

 double yellow flowers, and atones for the length of its 

 name by the fact that it is the finest hardy: variegated- 

 leaved plant in cultivation ! There are many costly stove 

 plants grown for the beauty of their leaves that really 

 come short of the splendour of this hardy plant, which 

 may be purchased for a couple of shillings and grown in 

 the commonest soil, and will, with very little care, make a 

 superb ornament for the conservatory or for the choicest 

 rockery or border. 



To do justice to the three day r lilies that have been 

 named thus far, H. flava, fulva, and kwanso, will prove an 

 agreeable task for one who is earnest in gardening. But 

 there are a dozen more worth having, such as Dumortier's 

 (H. Dumortieri), with narrow leaves and reddish-brown 

 flowers; the grass-leaved (H. graminea), also with narrow 

 leaves, but with yellow flowers, which are scarcely" so 

 handsome as those of H. flava. The two-rowed (S. 

 disticha) has the leaves set in two rows very distinctly ; 

 the flowers are yellow without and reddish within. Nor 



