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LIST OF FLOV.'ERS. 



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but most of all a light loam. Propagated by separating the roots 

 when the leaves dry up ; but should be replanted again directly. 



LiLY;, scarlet martagon. — Lat. L. Chalcedonium. A hardy 



bulbous-rooted plant from the Levant ; it grows three or four 

 feet high^ and blows a bright scarlet flower in June and July. 

 Propagated from offsets taken soon after flowering, which should 

 be planted again shortly. They hke a good soil and good situation. 

 Lily, purple martagon. — Lat. L. martagon. A hardy per- 

 ennial plant of Germany, which grows three or fom* feet high, 

 and blows, in July, a flower which is reddish or white, spotted 

 with pm-ple or blackish spots. Often called the Turk^s cap. 



Cultivated like the scarlet. Lily, common white. — Lat. L. 



candidum. This is sometimes called the lily of France, fi-om the 

 chcumstance of its being greatly used in France on festival days 

 and in processions ; but this is only because of its being a hand- 

 some and purely lohite flower, corresponding ^ith the national 

 colom*. It grows three or four feet high, sending up a straight 

 stalk, garnished all the way up by naiTow" leaves, and terminated 

 by several lai'ge white flowers hanging in clusters, and which 

 appear in July. It is hardy, cares httle as to what soil or 

 situation is given to it, and multiphes rapidly by an increase of its 

 large scaly bulbous roots, which should be sepai-ated every two or 

 thi'ee years, and planted again directly. If not thus often separated, 

 the offsets become so numerous that, each sending up their stalk, 

 the plant is over-large and unsightly. It is always handsome^ 

 however, in shrubberies, and is also handsome in the back pai't of 

 borders or in the middle of beds, when parted often, as re- 

 commended above. Superb Martagon. — Lat. L. superhum. 



A most beautiful plant, sending up stallcs eight or ten feet high, 

 and blowing a great many flowers of bright reddish orange, spotted 

 with \iolet. This plant requires bog soil ; and it wiU then stand 

 om' winters pretty weU. It should be taken up every three or 



four years to separate the offsets, by which it is propagated. 



TuRK^s Turban. — Lat. L. pomponium. Bulb growing two feet 

 high, leaves a whitish green, and blowing in June a very pretty 

 pendulous flower, the pomts of the petals tmiiing up, so as to 

 form a turhan shape. The best time for moving these is when 

 the stalks begin to die doT\Ti, and, then, after separating their 

 offsets, they should be planted again as soon as is convenient, for 

 they do not like being kept out of ground. Lily Orange. — 



