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faded. The bulbs should be planted about four 
inches deep in fairly dry, well-drained positions. 
It is a good plan to carpet the ground with Arenarias, 
close-growing Sedums, Saxifrages or Aubrietias, 
both for the sake of preventing the splashing of 
the blossoms with mud during Autumn rains and 
affording some protection to the bulbs during 
Winter. 
Stokesia cyanea. — In form and colour the flowers 
of this plant are of similar appearance to a large- 
flowered Michaelmas Daisy. There is a refinement 
and a brightness in the flower that makes it very 
acceptable in the dull month of October. Given a 
sheltered position the Stokesia will remain in bloom 
for several weeks, and it is a particularly good 
plant for pot culture where an unheated conservatory 
has to be made as bright as possible during the 
earlier half of Winter. In six- or seven-inch pots, 
well fed, the plant will make a sturdy bush about 
two feet high and as much through, the whole surface 
being studded with its soft lavender-blue stars. 
Tellima grandiflora. — So far as its flowers are 
concerned there is nothing very striking about 
Tellima grandiflora, and why its specific name 
should have been given it is rather a puzzle. The 
flowers are of dull greenish hue, small, and dangling 
on slender stalks after the style of a Heuchera, but 
what the plant lacks in brilliancy or showiness in 
its flowers is counterbalanced by very handsome 
foliage. The leaves are something like those of 
