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A gardening friend and neighbour of mine, Mr. Herbert Green, of 

 Tovil, near Maidstone, has succeeded well with the ordinary form of 

 L. auratum. (Fig. 206.) 



He planted fifty bulbs in an exposed Rhododendron bed, in peat and 

 sand, four years ago. They are all ali^e at the present day, which is a 

 good deal to say, I think. Many continue to flower strongly and we'l. 



Fig. 206.— L. auratdm. 



others send up short spikes and flower feebly, but the hopeful part of it 

 is that there are many offsets, though at present they have not flowered. 



Three of my four-year-old offsets, as already mentioned, are flowering 

 this year. Is there really a hope ? Is Kent to prove the place for the 

 establishment of auratum ? I fear not. Not until a G. F. Wilson shall 

 arise in the county ! . 



Six bulbs of Szovitsianum, from Mr. Wallace, planted at the edge of 



