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Lilies, The Propagation of. By G. B. Mallett (Garden, No. 1635, 

 p. 19*, '21 8 08; No. 1688, p. 242, 11/4/08).— There is much in Lily 

 propagation that would interest every gardener ; and any chance seedling 

 of merit that came into his hands would he saved to cultivation if he were 

 ahle to perpetuate the form, whilst the renewal of stock, now an expensive 

 annual necessity, would be reduced considerably if he were able to improve 

 upon Nature's methods of bulb increase. There is no place better adapted 

 for propagating Lilies than a well-tilled kitchen garden. The natural 

 method of propagating is by means of seeds, but with the exception of 

 Liiimn cordifolium, L. gigantcum, L tenuifolium, and L. polyphyllum, 

 and in the raising of hybridised seedlings and seeds of rare species, 

 whose roots are not available, this method is not generally employed, 

 being slow and uncertain. In common with those of all flowering mono- 

 cotyledons, the seeds should be sown as soon as ripe or obtainable. Small 

 lots of seeds should be sown in pans and introduced to greenhouse 

 temperature if available ; a whole season is thus gained, and seeds of low 

 germinating power, such as invariably occur in hybridised capsules, are 

 thus given a better chance of making headway. — E. T. C. 



Linum, Polygonum, and Parkinsonia (Beih. Bot. Cent. xiii. 

 lit. 8, p. 883). — Herr Prof. Dr. Friedrich Hildebrand describes the 

 <li {Terences between Linum austriacum and L. perenne, the fleshy fruit, 

 ochrea, and bud of Polygonum pcrfoliatum, and the various types of leaf 

 and leaf-formation in Parkinsonia aculeata. — G. F. S.-E. 



Liverworts {Beih. Bot. Cent. xiii. ht. 3, p. 265).— Herr Karl Muller 

 (Freiburg im Breisgau) gives a list of localities of rare Hepatics from 

 Alsace, Mulseburg, Erzgebirge, Tyrol, and Switzerland. — G. F. S.-E. 



Ly caste x Balliae (Orch. Rev. p. 80, fig. 19; March 1903).— Historical 

 particulars are given with an illustration of the plant. — H. J. C. 



Macrozamia Fraseri in the Garden of Ottonella. By Prof. G. 



Roster [Bull. B. Soc. Tosc. Ort. 1, p. 21, January 1903).— Seeds of this 

 plant were sown in October 1900. The succeeding winter was exception- 

 ally severe in Elba, where the garden is situated. In February 1901, on 

 four successive days of which the minimum temperature was —0*2, +1*00, 

 0*8, —0*5, and on two consecutive days on which snow fell to the 

 depth < f 1 centimetres, the author examined the seeds in the ground and 

 found that, of the eight sown, three had germinated and had almost 

 the first leaf above the ground. At the present time, 

 ring, tin three plantlets are extraordinarily vigorous, about 

 ]."> centimetres high, and each with three leaves of a fine deep green 

 colour. W. C. W. 



Manures, Animal. By J. J. Willis (Gard. Mag. n. 2566, p. 12 ; 

 B 1 M 1 11- contributions of this writer upon manures and kindred 

 il i" t deserve the special attention of gardeners, who as a rule do not 

 trouble themsehrea BO much about this matter as the importance of it 

 demands. Mr. Willis in this article classifies the varieties of animal 

 manures, and gives an analysis of each, with remarks upon the value of 



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