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still, as formerly, supplied with the bulbs from Italy. Anxious 

 to establish it here, I planted it repeatedly in the borders at 

 Chapel Allerton, but the leaves were generally more or less 

 blasted by the frosts, and the roots never survived longer than 

 two or three years. At Mill Hill I had better success, for 

 one bulb, under the shelter of a Laurel on the terrace, where 

 the soil was deep loam thrown up from the adjacent field, 

 continued to live and encrease during all the seven years of 

 my residence there, with no other shelter than the dead leaves 

 blown over it in autumn. This proves that it may be grown 

 in our Island ; and I have no doubt, in many situations, by 

 covering the beds with long straw during Avinter, advan- 

 tageously for the market : it would probably require no 

 protection whatever, close to the sea. A deep sandy loam, 

 rather moist than dry, and free from all manure whatever, is 

 the soil I would recommend for it. 



Hermione Ambigena. MSS. Narcissus Incomparabilis. 

 j3. Ker in Bot. Mag. n. 948. cum Ic. Optimd. Narcissus 

 orientalis. Linn. Mant. p. 63. auctoritate fadborum ex horto 

 Upsaliensi. 



It is exceedingly probable that this is a florist's species, 

 and the remarks of Dr. Sims on the subject deserve to be 

 written in letters of gold : his coadjutor however is mistaken 

 respecting its synonyms, bulbs of it having been sent, with 

 the name of Orientalis, to the late Dr. Hope, from the Upsal 

 garden by Linnjeus himself. I refer it to this genus rather 

 than to Queltia, from the number of its flowers, and diffe- 

 rently inserted filaments. No plant is more hardy, thriving 

 in any soil ; but it is not worth cultivating, having coarse 

 leaves, and only from two to four flowers on a stalk. 



