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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[November, 
the case in Europe as well as in this country. 
For the purpose of obtaining a healthy stock, 
I have obtained the Auratum from England, 
Longiflorum every one likes. That beautiful, 
snowy-white, trumpet-formed flower will always 
be a favorite. Eximium and Takesima are im- 
tinct sort. It is of medium size, blanches 
readily, is exceedingly tender and crisp, and of 
most excellent flavor. Besides the large cen- 
bhown’s lily.— (Lilium Brownii .) 
France, Prussia, and Holland, but they exhibit¬ 
ed the same disease or want of vitality, as those 
imported directly from Japan. In the spring of 
1867 I set out over 500 bulbs which arrived the 
previous winter, and in the fall had but one 
sound bulb. As I had advertised the Auratum 
that autumn, I endeavored to find a stock of 
sound bulbs around New York and elsewhere, 
and while I saw many florists who declared they 
had plenty of Auratums, an examination proved 
they were as bad as my own. In 1868 I saved 
about one-half, and the present year nearly every 
one is sound, making a strong and vigorous 
growth, quite surpassing A. speciosum in strength 
and hight, with many specimens bearing a dozen 
or more of its mammoth flowers. The Auratum 
is best pleased with a rather sandy soil, and I 
have always found that manures of all kinds 
were of great injury to the bulbs,especially if they 
were in the least faulty at the time of planting. 
If Auratum is the King, Brownii is the Queen 
of the Lilies—the most beautiful and gorgeous 
of the trumpet-formed section. The engraving 
was designed to represent a medium-sized flow¬ 
er, the drawing being made from a specimen I 
gathered for the purpose. It gives a very good 
idea of the size and form, and I will endeavor 
to describe the color. The bud is a dark brown¬ 
ish purple, and the outside of the petals is of 
this color when the flower first opens. The in¬ 
side of the petals is clear white. The contrast 
is grand. As the flower grows older the outside 
becomes much lighter. Brownii seldom attains 
more than two feet in hight, though I have seen 
specimens nearly or quite three feet. There 
are from three to six flowers on each stem. 
The Excelsum Lily has always been a great 
favorite with me. It grows four feet or more in 
hight, bearing at its very top an immense clus¬ 
ter of flowers, of a beautiful, rich, creamy, buff 
color, and delightfully fragrant. I think a few 
specimens were forwarded you last season. 
provements upon Longiflorum, the flowers being 
longer and the petals more reflexed, but the 
old kind is still eminently worthy of culture.” 
Boston Market Celery. 
Boston has long been celebrated for the su¬ 
perior quality of its celery, and the variety gen¬ 
erally cultivated in the vicinity of that city is 
known as Boston Market Celery. As'we find 
no account of the origin of this variety, we 
presume that it is the result of a careful selec¬ 
tion ; at all events it is a most excellent and dis- I 
tral head, numerous strong side shoots are 
thrown up, which, in large specimens, often be¬ 
come as large as the main heads of the dwarf 
varieties. The engraving is taken from a speci¬ 
men raised by Josiah Crosby, of Arlington, 
Mass. It will be seen, by referring to page 365, 
last month, that this excellent variety is with 
other choice seeds placed on our premium list. 
The Australian Glory Pea. —In the issue 
for September last an engraving of this splen¬ 
did ornament of the flower garden was given, 
with an account of its treatment, by a friend 
who has been very successful with it. Since 
then Mr. John Saul, the experienced florist of 
Washington, D. C., has informed us that he 
raises it with perfect success in the open air. 
He waits until the ground is well warmed— 
perhaps the last of May—and then sows the 
seed in not over-rich soil, in the place where the 
plants are to stand. It will not bear transplant¬ 
ing. The plant is a particular favorite of the 
red spider, and it should be watched, especially 
in dry weather, in order to guard against this 
troublesome insect. Several have asked where 
seeds of the Glory Pea can be obtained; 
they are kept by all our principal seedsmen. 
TnE Curculio. — Mr. Charles Arnold, of 
Paris, Ontario, stated at the recent meeting of 
the American Pomological Society that after 
trying shaking the trees and other methods for 
destroying the curculio, he had hit upon the ex¬ 
pedient of whitewashing the soil. He pours 
the whitewash from a watering-pot, and spreads 
it with a brush so as to completely cover the 
surface. This, of course, needs a firm and 
compact surface, clear of weeds. Mr. A. states 
that the larva or maggot of the curculio will 
not leave the fallen plum to enter the ground, 
but will die there rather than pass through the 
whitewash. This is simple and worthy of a trial. 
