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and effective bedding plant. Those who thought it would prove ‘^miffy ” will 
be glad to know that no such charge can be laid against it. In addition to its 
superior colour, it has one great advantage over the Pyrethrum, that it does not 
bloom, or if a flower or two should put in an appearance, they appear incapable of 
rising above the foliage. Mr. Turner told me he found it produce the best 
plants from seed, but the difficulty appears to be to get seed from it. Mr. 
Turner is starving some plants in large G0-pots, with a view of driving them to 
seed, and a few of them seem to be yielding him a fair harvest. Bedders-out 
should make use of this plant another year.—R. D. 
LILIUM MAXIMOWICZII. 
S his pretty little hardy Lily, which has been described and figured by Dr. 
Regel, is nearly related to L. tenuifolium. It was introduced to St. 
f Petersburgh from the Japan Gardens by Maximowicz, after whom it 
has been named. The slender stem grows from tv70 to three feet high, 
with alternate linear three-nerved leaves. The flowers are comparatively large, 
and of a brilliant orange-scarlet colour ; the segments sessile and lance-shaped, 
curved backwards, wavy at the edge, having a nectar furrow at the base, and in 
the lower half dotted with blackish-purple elliptical spots. The weaker stems 
produce only a single flower, but the stronger ones bear three or more, singly from 
the axils of the upper leaves. 
Though not to be compared for showiness with some of the larger-flowered 
sorts, as auratwn, speciosum^ tigrinum^ &c., it has a beauty of its own, which 
renders it quite worth growing in company with the other slender-habited 
species, as tenuifolium^ Szovitzianum^ Leichtlinii, &c.—M. 
ADIANTUM DECORUM. 
XaN this new Peruvian Maidenhair Fern, which has been lately introduced by 
the Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of Chelsea, we have one of the most useful and 
ornamental species of moderate stature, as yet made known. In appear- 
‘ij ance it somewhat recalls to mind both A. concinnum and A. cuneatum^ and 
yet it is not like either of them. It agrees with A. cuneatmn in having much the 
same general outline of frond, and in bearing small pinnules, only in this case they are 
more variable in form ; whilst it rather agrees with A . concinnum in the tendency of 
the basal pinnules to overlie the main rachis, but the fronds are triangular-ovate, 
instead of elongate or lanceolate in figure. The fronds of A. decorum are, more¬ 
over, more erect in growth, owing to the stout substance of both stipites and 
rachides, a matter of some consequence as regards the ornamental capabilities of the 
plant, for though at first sight it might be supposed that sturdiness and stiffness 
of growth were not compatible with elegance, yet it is not so, at least in this 
case, for here the small size of the pinnules, and their profusion and pleasing 
arrangement, secure a due share of elegance ; while the stalks are just firm 
