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nearly a month in the cold frame, where it attains a higher 
stature, though not quite so rich in colour as the flowers 
produced in the open air. For pot culture and forcing I believe 
it will be very useful, and take a prominent place amongst early 
decorative plants. It produces seed very freely, and will, 
therefore, he capable of ready multiplication. I obtained with 
the typical blue form a few bulbs of a pretty pure white variety. 
I send herewith some specimens flowered in the open air from 
bulbs collected in 1877, which have been in the open ground 
the last two winters. George Maw , F.L.S.” 
Hymenocallis macrostephana. — The following note from 
Mr. Woodbridge was read by Dr. Masters :— 
“I was very pleased to see a description of this plant by 
Mr. Baker in the Gardeners ’ Chronicle of last week (p. 430). 
Having grown it for several years I can fully endorse Mr. 
Baker’s statement that ‘it forms a valuable accession to our stock 
of cultivated stove Pancratiece .’ And I am decidedly of opinion 
that when it becomes more generally known it will be as exten¬ 
sively cultivated as the Eucharis amazonica , to which perhaps, 
from a gardener’s point of view, it may most readily be compared. 
I think in some respects and for some purposes it will prove even 
more valuable than that well-known and highly-appreciated 
plant. The scent I fancy is sweeter, and the form of the flower 
more elegant, while it is equal if not superior in the delicate 
pureness of its colour. It is also a continual blooming plant. 
We have it in flower here almost every month in the year, but 
more especially in the winter months, when white flowers are 
most valuable- Mr. Baker says that ‘it flowers in February 
and March,’ and probably that is its most natural time of 
flowering, but mode of the treatment may account for its flower¬ 
ing at other times of the year. The bulbs readily throw out 
offsets, and these if not separated from but grown with the 
parent bulb, and shifted into larger pots as required, give 
flowers at different times of the year according to their various 
sizes, so that with a few well filled pots of the various sized 
bulbs a succession of blooms is easily obtained. The same 
result may possibly be obtained by separating and growing 
them singly; but this I have not proved. They grew well in 
the same house and under the same treatment as the Eucharis. 
John Woodbridge, Syon House Gardens, Brentford .” 
