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j LIlium thunbergianum. Several superb plants of this showy species are 
1 flowering in full perfection at Messrs. Rollison's, Tooting. Superficially examined, 
it presents certain characters which are almost sufficient to distinguish it from the 
L. aurantiacum^ which has been figured in this work ; yet we are induced to 
regard them as the same. Specimens in a high state of cultivation exhibit so great 
a superiority in every feature, that it might very easily be mistaken for another 
plant. The leaves become much denser, and covered with a conspicuous 
pubescence, and the flowers so much larger, of a richer orange, and more numerous, 
that unless it is potted in a spacious vase and a nutritive soil, its true characteristics 
will never be fully developed. Where these points are duly regarded, it is one of 
the most ornamental of the family. 
OPERATIONS FOR AUGUST. 
Although the greater quantity of hardy flowering herbaceous plants and 
shrubs are now beginning to shed their blossoms and lose much of their beauty, 
this is just the season at which well-managed flower gardens confer most credit on 
the gardener, and exhibit the highest contrast to those conducted on the almost 
exploded system of collecting the most complete variety of plants into one bed. 
Petunias, Verbenas, and hundreds of beautiful sub-shrubby, herbaceous, and annual 
plants, which are assigned to small and distinct compartments, are at present inter- 
twining their branches, and apparently vying with each other which shall excel in 
the profusion and richness of their brilliant floral ornaments. Now, therefore, is 
the time for the eye of taste to examine the eftects of colours ; to investigate their 
combinations, contrasts, and diversities ; so that, at a future period, the arrangement 
may be improved, and the general grouping be made more consonant with judgment 
and propriety. 
We do not intend here to offer any hints on the subject, contenting ourselves 
with drawing attention to it, and inviting inquiry. Of its influence, nothing surely 
need be said ; since the most superb display of flowers would be really disagreeable 
if their hues were not tastefully mingled in appropriate order. 
The propagation of all the tender plants to which allusion is above made may 
be immediately commenced. By taking off cuttings at the present time, a twofold 
good will be effected ; for not only will the young stock be prepared and estab- 
lished before the advancement of winter, but the specimens from which shoots are 
taken will be rendered more prolific of flowers by the multiplication of young and 
blooming branches. The cuttings can, besides, be struck in a lower temperature 
than they would require if left another month, by which means both heat will be 
economized, and the young plants retained in a much more healthy condition. 
Those who have carried out our former recommendations, and transferred the 
most languid and drooping of their greenhouse plants to an exposed situation and 
