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THE FLOBIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ September, 
more the aspect of a hybrid between L. auratum and L.japonicum^ than between 
the two just named. In Messrs. Teutschel’s view, “ it seems a seedling form 
of L. auratum.’’ They add, “ It is a delicate bulb, and travels badly, scarcely one 
in ten having reached us in good condition ; all our bulbs have had narrow 
elongate foliage like L. auratum.” 
L. Kbamebi Baeeianum. —This is a smaller and more slender form, with the 
leaves more numerous and more crowded. The flowers are also smaller, the white 
perianth measuring four inches, and the anthers half-an-inch long. It is described 
by Mr. Baker, in a paper on the Tulipece.^ read before the Linnean Society.— 
T. Moore. 
NE PLUS ULTEA PEA. 
[ S a late summer Pea I have not as yet found any other kind to excel this. 
I have it now (Aug. 15), and have had it for some weeks in very flne condi- 
tion, notwithstanding the long-continued dry weather. It is a most abundant 
bearer, of superior flavour, and remains a long time fit for use—all great 
recommendations in its favour. Those who wish to have it flne I would advise 
to save their own seed, and in doing so to pay attention to the matter by selecting 
only the finest pods. By this means they will secure good, genuine seed, and by 
sowing thinly in rows about 6 ft. apart on deeply-dug ground, they will get good 
crops of Peas of the finest quality, well repaying any little pains or labour bestowed 
on them.—M. Saul, Stourton. 
LAGEESTEOMIA INDICA. 
have had this magnificent flowering shrub in this country for over one 
J hundred years, but seldom has it been seen in flower in any great degree 
of perfection, and in consequence its merits as a flowering acquisition 
amongst our stove-plants is but little known. The plant appears easy to 
grow, and as easy to flower, but in the want of knowing that easy method lies the 
difficulty. The Lagerstromia in question has been about this place for the last 
thirteen years. It was always grown in a pot, and once only did I ever see a 
flower upon it; this might possibly have served the purpose of a prying botanist, 
but as an ornamental plant for the stove it appeared to be of little use, and 
it was certainly of less use as a flowering-plant. 
Lately I have been adopting, both in our stove and greenhouse, a general 
planting-out system in every available space. The plants, when turned out of 
pots into a deep, well-prepared body of soil, grow away amazingly, and assume 
such proportions as to size, health, and vigour as can only be arrived at in pot- 
culture by the greatest amount of labour and pains. Into one of those prepared 
beds, situate at the end of a plant-stove—in February last—we turned out of pot 
and planted our Lagerstrdmia, feeling inwardly so far satisfied, that even if it did 
not flower any better in its new quarters than it did when confined to a pot, it at 
all events stood a better chance of being preserved in our collection than when 
