SCIL'LA ITAL'ICA. 
ITALIAN SQUILL. 
Class. 
HEXANDRIA. 
Order . 
M0N0GYN1A. 
Natural Order. 
LILIACEjE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduced 
Switzerland. 
9 inches. 
Apr. July. 
Bulb. 
in 1605. 
No. 1226. 
The Greeks made use of a word similar to our 
Scilla, and on that our own seems to have been 
founded ; they also applied it to an acrid bulb, which 
most authors admit to have been our medicinal 
squill. 
The Italian Squill, now figured, is rarely met 
with in gardens, although the whole genus is so 
generally admired. We owe the possession of both 
varieties, the blue and the white, to the Rev. W. T. 
Tree, of Allesley. With us it has been very slow 
of increase, and its habit, in this particular, may 
account for its scarcity. 
We would especially recommend the attention of 
our readers to this attractive genus of bulbs, both 
for their beauty and the pleasures they afford by 
meeting us when even the first daisy of the spring 
is a delight. They flower on, from year to year, 
regardless of neglect ; and it is unnecessary that 
they should be removed, unless it be to divide and 
increase them. Removal should be effected in 
summer whilst the bulbs are dormant. The re- 
moval of bulbs in a growing state should never, but 
in cases of necessity, be effected. 
