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elegant silver stripes, which are very showy, and 

 there is one called Lilium superbum, that has been 

 known to have twenty -five flowers on a stalk. Be- 

 sides those above enumerated, there are some others 

 which are generally cultivated in greenhouses, as the 

 Calla, or Ethiopian Lily ; and the following, which 

 have been known to endure our winters, by protecting 

 them with dung, &c, Lilium Longiflorum, in two va- 

 rieties; these produce on their stalks, which grow 

 from twelve to eighteen inches high, beautiful rose- 

 coloured flowers, streaked with white, wh *ch are very 

 sweet-scented. These roots are sometimes kept out 

 of the ground until spring, and then planted in the 

 flower borders, but they should be preserved carefully 

 in sand, or dry light mould. Lilium Japonicum. Of 

 these there are two varieties, which produce several 

 stalks at once, yielding very showy flowers. One of 

 the varieties is blue-flowered, and the other produces 

 flowers of the purest white. 



Narcissus. — The species and varieties of this plant 

 are numerous. The Incomparable is perfectly hardy, 

 and produces its flowers in April, which are called by 

 some pasche, or paus flowers, by others, butter and 

 eggs ; perhaps because their bright yellow petals are 

 so surrounded with large white ones. Some dislike 

 the smell of these, and it is said that the odour has a 

 pernicious effect upon the nerves ; but the white fra- 

 grant double, as well as all the Roman and Polyan- 

 thus Narcissus, are free from this objection, being of a 

 very grateful and agreeable smell. Some of these are 

 justly held in great esteem for their earliness, as well 



