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better able to stand the full sun. Wallacei, a fine late bloomer, likes, on 

 the other hand, shade, and is very beautiful, being so clear in colour, and 

 increases freely. I have a few bulbs of L. leucanthermLm, but last year 

 they were not strong enough to bloom. This season I am looking forward 

 to seeing the flowers. The species appears to have a capital constitution, 

 and will, I expect, be of easy culture. L. Krameri I am not fortunate 

 with, losing it after the first season, as is the case with many Auratums 

 with a few exceptions. Also the varieties of longiflorum do not increase 

 with me, rather splitting up into small bulbs. 



I think, as I before mentioned, Lilies to grow well require a dripping 

 season ; the water-pot relieves the root, but does not affect the atmo- 

 sphere surrounding them. This given, with a partial shade and the proper 

 soil — a matter to be proved by practical experience — Lilies are of easy 

 growth and of the greatest beauty. 



In reference to the dAvarf form of white Martagon, Mr. Archer Hind 

 writes me he had it from an old clergyman on the banks of the Tweed 

 more than fifty years ago. It is smaller in every way, and the leaves 

 narrower ; the stem also is entirely without the pubescence found in the 

 ordinary white and purple forms. 



Addendum. — October, 1901. — My plants of sulplmrcum and Icucan- 

 tliemum both opened at precisely the same time, and as far as I and 

 other Lily growers in this neighbourhood can see they are identical. 

 We can discover no difference whatever unless it be in height — 

 sidphurcum was 6 feet high Avith seven blooms on it, and leucan- 

 themum only about 4 feet; but then SM/jj/mrc?^??^ was an old-established 

 bulb and leucanthemum only in its second season. The leaves of both 

 plants were identical, as also to us the blossoms. 



