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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER 
[ September £0, 1888. 
- “ L. nepalense. —D. Don, Wern. Trans, iii., 412 ; Prodr. Nep. 52 ; 
Wallich. PI. Asiat. Rir. iii., C7, 291, Cat. 5078 ; Knnth, Enum. iv., 2(17. 
-L. ochroleucum, Wall, in hb. Lindley.—Bulb, not known to me ; 
stem, 2 to 3 feet high, straight, slender, smooth ; leaves, 30 to 50 in 
number, scattered, of a shining green colour, ascending, smooth, lance¬ 
shaped, acute or linear, the lower ones 3 or 4 inches long, 6 or 9 lines 
broad in the middle, distinctly 5 to 7 nerved, the upper ones shorter and 
distant from each other ; flowers, solitary, or few in an umbel, slightly 
of 7000 to 9000 feet above sea level, from G-urwhal and Kumaon to 
Nepaul. Wallich, Thomson, Jacquemont, Ac.” 
The figure in Elwes’ Monograph must presumably have been drawn 
from a dried specimen, and differs in colour from the flowers of Messrs. 
Low’s plants, which is rich maroon only slightly broken, and the segments 
clearly tipped with greenish gold. The character of L. nepalense is 
represented in the engraving (fig. 29), and the plants and bulbs will 
doubtless be taken good care of by their possessors. 
1'ig. 29.— LILIUM NEPALENSE. 
fragrant (pedicels with bracts at the base in a whorl of reflexed leaves), 
or few in a loose raceme, the lower pedicels ascending, 2 or 3 inches 
lmg, nodding at the top; perianth, 4 or 5 inches long, broadly funnel- 
shaped, whitish-yellow, more or less tinged with purple on the inside, 
often marked with scattered dots ; segments, oblanceolate-clawed, bluntish 
in the expanded flower, falcate in the upper third part, 6 to 12 lines 
broad at two-thirds of their length from the base ; stamens, shorter than 
the perianth by one-fourth ; anthers, narrow, 6 or 7 lines long ; pollen, 
yellow ; ovary, 9 to 12 lines long together with the style, a little longer 
than the stamens ; capsule, ovate, 2 inches long, obtuse-angled. Tem¬ 
perate regions of the Western and Central Himalayas, at an elevation 
HYDRANGEA PANICULATA GRANDIFLORA. 
Judging from the absence of this effective Hydrangea from the 
majority of gardens it is doubtful if its great decorative value is suffi¬ 
ciently appreciated, or the method of culture for having it in the best 
condition generally understood. Planted in shrubbery borders where 
the soil either is, or is soon apt to become, exhausted, and the plants 
pruned in the bush form, they are in a measure effective ; but to see the 
huge trusses in all their beauty the plants-should be grown in deeply 
worked and well enriched soil, cut down to the ground annually, and 
the beds well dressed with manure, then the vigorous growths and 
