ancients were skilled in this kind of learning, in 
teaching by similitudes, and one of them observes, 
that God sent us the Book of Nature before he sent 
us the Book of the Scriptures.” 
The plant now published has appeared in some 
gardens as Calliprora speciosa, from its size, and 
the depth of its colour. It is desirable that this 
error should be corrected, it being doubtless, but a 
seedling variety of the original Calliprora lutea. 
This latter bulb was discovered by Douglas, in Cali- 
fornia ; and when we reflect on the number of fine 
plants that he collected, how many thousands of 
beautiful subjects, may we not reasonably suppose, 
are still left behind ! Even close to his very foot- 
steps may have existed, unseen, plants of as great 
splendour as any he discovered. Everybody knows 
the beautiful Lupines that now so generally orna- 
ment our gardens ; of these, no less than seven- 
teen species he found on his first visit to the shores 
of the Columbia; and although considerable ex- 
ertions have lately been made for the discovery of 
new plants, these are, in comparison with the extent 
of country unexplored, literally of no moment. 
North America alone being eight millions of square 
miles in content, thousands — perhaps hundreds of 
thousands of miles exist, on which no human foot 
has trod, which, notwithstanding, are embellished 
with innumerable plants, unknown to man. 
The cultivation of this bulb is simple; it only 
requires to be planted in a friable sandy peat ; and 
shade seems to favour its flowering. Although it 
has been fully exposed in England, we would pro- 
tect a single plant. 
