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LILIES. 



BYM.M. LEICHTLIN, CARLSRUHE, BADEN, GERMANY. 



Vol. 8, No. 10 of your periodical contains an ar- 

 ticle about Lilies, by J. D. K., Washington, D. C, 

 and as an amateur collector and grower of Lilies, of 

 many years' standing, I beg leave to answer his 

 queries about some kinds. 



The largest number of flowers observed on a single 

 bulb, but with a couple of stems of Lilium aura- 

 tum, is about 25 — 30 each, measuring from 11 — 13 

 inches (English measure) in diameter. There are 

 many superb varieties of that species. 



L. Browmi is rather tender, but it is not the 

 sharp frost that kills the root, but the wet and mois- 

 ture in the Fall. 



The cost of collecting American indigenous spe- 

 cies is much greater than their low price in Europe, 

 and so the bulbs are imported. 



L. japonicum is the same or a synonym Brownii. 

 This and eximium, and Takesima are each quite a 

 different thing from L. longifiorum^ Takesima being 

 by far the finest of them. 



Excelsum or testaceum is a hybrid between candi- 

 dum and chalcedonicum. 



Giganteum does well at Nizza and in some parts 

 of Cornwall, but cannot withstand any sharp cold. 

 Aurantiacum and hulblfermn are somewhat similar 

 although distinct ; but colchicum belongs to the 

 Turk's cap shaped, the color being a clear, canary 

 yellow, with some fine speckles of brownish-crim- 

 son and vermiHon anthers. 



^^Fen-kwam^^' '^Kimi-gajo'^ are mere varieties of 

 Thunhergianum. 



If J. D. K. thinks my communication to be of 

 any use to him, I will be very glad to serve him, 

 and might even send him any seeds or plants of 

 mine. 



I will thank you to communicate to him these few 

 lines, either privately or through the columns of your 

 valuable journal. 



"SOMBTHmG TO DO." 



BY J. S. L. 



" What can't a woman do !" has expressed the 

 surprise her exploits have awakened, while it indi- 

 cated faith in her ability to do greater things. The 

 inquiry is making, " What shall a woman do?', and 

 while the bright minds of her sex are searching for 

 'something to do,' let me give you an illustration of 

 what she has done, while I commend the example 

 as especially worthy of imitation by all who have it 

 in their power to exert themselves in the same field, 

 to even the smallest degree. 



Women who would effect any thing worthy must 



break away from fashion and its stupendous follies, 

 assert their independence of soul, despise, or lament 

 if more charitable, the weakness, if not wickedness, 

 of the semi-barbarism of mediaeval customs. 



All truly noble women possess that mental great- 

 ness which can "look superior down" on the gow- 

 gaw and the child's play of fashionable society, as 

 exhibited by the triflers of the hour, — the ephemerae 

 who flutter their little day in the sunshine of plea- 

 sure, guiltless of one sober thought or of one useful 

 act. 



How refreshing to turn from such shallow daw- 

 dlers to the delightful and useful labors of Lady 

 RoLLE, as set forth in the pleasing pages of Elihu 

 Burritt, himself an example of what a man can do^ 

 — as instructive to the idlers of fashion, yclept dan- 

 dies—as is Lady Rolle to the sisters of the same ilk. 



There are thousands and tens of thousands of 

 acres of land in the United States, East and West, 

 on which trees are needed, and on which they must 

 ere long be planted, if we would not suffer the con- 

 sequences of want of timber, increase of drought, 

 agricultural loss, and general suffering through de- 

 terioration of climate. Let the ladies urge on the 

 good work, either by taking it in hand themselves, 

 or stimulating their brothers or husbands thereto. 

 The energetic exercise of their faculties in this field, 

 they will find neither effeminating as fashion, debil- 

 itating as indulgence in luxury, or demoralizing as 

 the theatre or opera, but tending to enlarge the 

 heart, and expand and strengthen the intellect, and 

 adorn and ennoble existence, while it will furnish a 

 perennial source of genuine enjoyment, which the 

 giddiest pursuit of pleasure, in the rounds of folly 

 and dissipation, can never afford. 

 BiCTON and Lady Rolle, by EHhu Burritt. 



"Lady Rolle is a remarkable woman, without equal 

 or like in England, in one vigorous, well developed 

 individuality of will and genius. She is a female 

 rival of Alexander the Great. IfYirgil had lived 

 in her day he might have been tempted to substi- 

 tute 'Arbores foeminamque cano' for his famous in- 

 troductory line "Arma virumque cano." The world 

 that the Grecian conqueror subjugated was a small 

 affair in space, compared with the two hemispheres 

 which this English lady has taken by the hair of 

 the head and bound to her chair of state. It seems 

 to have been her ambition, for nearly half a century, 

 to do what was never before done by man or woman 

 — in filling her great park and gardens with a col- 

 lection of trees and shrubs, that should be to them 

 what the British Museum is to the relics of antiqui- 

 ty and the literature of all ages. And whoever has 

 traveled in difi'erent countries and climates, and vis- 



