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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[DECIiMBKR, 
for these protectors by the holes at front, back, and side, and these can be stopped 
if required by means of an ordinary cork; while the glass slides along the 
grooves, and can readily be removed, either wholly, or in part, as may be 
Fig. 3. Fig. 4. 
necessary. The uses to which these handy contrivances might be put in the 
garden of the amateur are manifold; and, indeed, all the forms we have here 
illustrated would certainly be utilized, as protectors at one season or other, in 
gardens of much higher pretensions.—M. 
LILIUM AURATUM. 
HAD between 400 and 500 seedling varieties of this glorious Lilium in 
flower this summer ; and being nearly all in flower at one time, the display 
was gorgeous in the extreme. The seed was sown in April, 1866, and 
some of it did not vegetate that year, but formed little bulbs in the soil. 
In 1867 they were pricked out into shallow boxes, the soil being peat and sandy 
loam ; and the year after, they were all potted singly into small pots. A few of 
the plants flowered last year, but the great bulk of them did not flower till this 
season, when many of them yielded from seven to eleven flowers on the stem. 
A great diversity of colour and of form was to be seen in these seedlings. Many 
of them had a broad red band instead of the yellow, which changed to a brownish 
