ITS HORTICULTURAL TOUR. 



sale, by the Haarlem bloemists. In this garden there 

 was likewise a collection of Auriculas and Polyanthuses, in 

 pots ; but, instead of being kept in a wooden frame, as is 

 practised by British florists, the pots were plunged in the 

 open border, and every three or four rows divided by screens 

 of reed, about four feet high, which thus served both for 

 shade and shelter. They were protected from heavy rains, 

 we understood, merely by bass-mats thrown over these 

 screens. In the cultivation of Auriculas and Polyanthuses, 

 the Dutch bloemists are certainly left far in the back-ground 

 by the zealous florists of Lancashire and Cheshire, especially 

 near the great manufacturing towns of Manchester and 

 Macclesfield. 



In the greenhouse, Mr Kreps senior shewed us the Ay- 

 tonia Capensis in flower ; and we were delighted to hear 

 him boast that it was named after his " old friend, Ayton 

 of Kew !" 



We inquired for the double-flowered Orange-lily (Li- 

 lium aurantiacum, fl. pi.) which we had seen announced 

 in a Haarlem catalogue. Mr Kreps mentioned, that he 

 had procured it many years ago from a florist near Rot- 

 terdam, curious in collecting all sorts of rarities, varie- 

 gations, or monstrosities, in the flower-tribe. For the 

 first year the flower was double ; next season, however, it 

 became single. The plant having, on this account, been ne- 

 glected, was suffered to remain unnoticed in a spare side- 

 border, till even its very existence had been forgotten, when, 

 after a lapse of several years, having renovated its vigour, 

 it again attracted notice by its flowers appearing in the 

 double state. It degenerated a second time, and was then 

 finally lost sight of. — We had heard that the Dutch florists 

 M iid some varieties of the Mexican Tiger-flower (Tri- 

 gidia Pavonia); but we were now assured that none such 

 had ever been seen at Haarlem. 



