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THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



Jonquil — Narcissus jonqitilla. — So called because its 

 leaves resemble those of a rush, in Latin juncus, in 

 [French jonc. The jonquil is a favourite pot-plant for 

 spring forcing, partly from the good grace with which 

 it submits to such treatment, but mainly for its slender 

 foliage and its bright-yellow odoriferous flowers, whose 

 perfume, however, is even too penetrating for many 

 persons to bear in a room. The jonquil, like most of 

 the other narcissi, is a native of low meadow-lands, 

 and likes an abundant supply of water during its growth 

 and flowering. Plant in September in any good garden 

 soil. In the open border, take up the bulbs every two 

 or three years ; but double jonquils should be taken up 

 every year, to prevent their degenerating. Be as scru- 

 pulous with them as with daffodils and crocuses, never to 

 let the leaves be cut off because the gardener thinks it 

 makes them look smarter, till they have perfectly fulfilled 

 their office of ripening and returning the sap to the root. 

 Single jonquils will furnish seed, but the quickest way of 

 propagation is by offsets. Importers of Dutch roots 

 will supply you with a stock at a moderate price, which, 

 if you take care of them, will last you your life. 



Idly — Lilium. — A large genus, of great beauty. The 

 common White Lily, L. candidwn, has been grown in 

 gardens from time immemorial ; it has blotched-leaved 

 and striped-leaved varieties. The Orange Lily, L. cro- 

 ceum, a native of Austria, may be found in almost every 

 cottage plot of flowers, where it amuses the children by 

 smearing their noses, when they go to smell of it, with 

 its yellow pollen. The Tiger Lily, L. tigrinum, from 

 China, where its bulbs are eaten, has handsome orange- 

 red flowers speckled with black, and is remarkable, though 

 not singular, on account of the numerous little bulbs 

 which are produced along the stem at the foot of each 

 leaf. The Martagon, or Turk's-cap Lily, L. inartagon, 

 from the Alps, has an unpleasant smell emitted by its 

 numerous dull purple flowers, spotted with small black 

 dots; but its colour varies. The Scarlet Turk's-cap, I. 

 calcedonicum, is handsomer ; while the Yellow Turk's-cap, 



