54 THE IMITATION, IN CLOSED CASES, OF 
as those in the warm room, and the colour more 
intense. One root flowered, the colour of the 
flow'er being blue. 
Case with Spring flowers. — In order to have a 
gay assemblage of flowers, I filled a case about 
three feet by one, with the following plants, viz., 
Primula Sinensis, P. nivalis, Scilla Siherica, Cy- 
clamen Coum, Ornithogalum Steinbergii, Gagea 
lutea, Ganymedes pulchellus, and three or four 
varieties of Crocus, interspersed with little patches 
of Lycopodium denticulatum. The case was 
placed, about the end of February, outside a 
window with a southern aspect. It is not, I 
believe, possible to see these plants to such 
advantage in any ordinary garden. Here, undis- 
turbed either by wind or by rain, their flowers 
were developed in the greatest luxuriance, and 
lasted for a much longer period, realising the 
beautiful description of Catullus : — 
Ut flos in septis secretns nascitur hortis, 
Ignotus pecori, nullo contusns aratro, 
Quem mulcent auras, iirmat sol, educat imber— 
Multi ilium pueri, multse optayere puellae. 
Fairy Roses, when planted in a tub and co- 
vered with a bell-glass of rather smaller diameter 
than the tub, so as to allow the rain which falls 
to run through the mould, without touching the 
plant, succeed most admirably when placed in a 
