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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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difficulty, and no small risk of falling over, I managed 
to reach.” It has since been discovered in the Caraccas 
and New Grenada; the specimens varying in the in¬ 
tensity and various combinations of their pink tints; 
thus, that of which we give a drawing being white all but 
the labellum, or lip, which is purplish pink. Another 
new variety, the Blotched Ruby-lipped Cattleya ( G. 
labiata picta), has its sepals and petals of a lilac rosy 
I tint, and its labellum blotched with darker but similar 
i colouring. The Cattleyas belong to the Natural Order 
Orchids (Orchidacese), and to the 20— Gynandria, 1— 
Monogynia of Linnaeus. They are all stove inhabitants. 
Dr. Wai.lich’s Lily (Lilium Wallichianum). — Pax¬ 
ton's Flower Garden, 121.—The name lily is said to be 
derived from li, the Celtic word for white, and referable 
to the common White lily. A great congregation of 
bulbous, tuberous, fibrous, and fleshy bundled-rooted 
plants are now brought together under one common 
title, Lilyworts (Liliacece) ; and this fine new hardy 
plant from Almorah, in the north of India, belongs to 
the section of true lilies; and the nearest alliance to it 
in our gardens is Lilium longiflorum, a native of Japan, 
of which species one called Eximium in the nursery 
! catalogue is a variety with a more powerful odour. This 
noble plant, Dr. Wallich’s lily, which grows from three 
to four feet high, is a good acquisition to our hardy 
lilies. In India it produces its flowers in twos or tlmees 
at the top of the stems, but in the examples hitherto 
bloomed under cultivation in this country (Ireland), one 
flower only has been so borne. A deep, rich, sandy 
loam, and two or three years’ growth to enable the bulbs 
to gain their maximum strength, will no doubt reveal 
the true native character of the plant. The flowers are 
fragrant, of a creamy white colour, and eight inches 
long, extending from the bottom, with a narrow long 
tube expanding into a wide-spreading limb. Stately 
though this new lily really is, it is far surpassed in 
stature by another Indian lily, called the Gigantic lily, 
Lilium giganteum, which is upwards of twelve feet in 
height; but this giant must yield the palm to the Wallich 
lily if their flowers be compared, those of the Gigantic lily 
being of a dull reddish yellow colour, like some Hemero j 
call is, or Day lily ; so that some of our cultivators will 
be somewhat disappointed with it, now that it is, at last, 
established amongst us, as we believe it is from what 
we learned at the Hackney Nursery a year or two back; j 
but many attempts at rearing it from seeds have failed 
within the last dozen years. 
Being now among the lilies, we may give the follow¬ 
ing anecdote about the best of all our present stock of 
them—Dr. Siebold's Japan ones ( Lilium speciosum and 
varieties):—When these were yet unpacked from the 
cases in which they arrived first in Europe during 1831, 
the French cavalry, at the siege of Antwerp, got amongst 
the valuable treasure, and destroyed many fine things 
which remain to this day to be re-introduced. The Japan 
lilies, now the pride of our autumnal flowers, were 
among a few things preserved from the wreck of the con¬ 
signment. Lastly, the “ lilies of the field,” so memorable 
from the touching allusion made to them by our Saviour 
in bis sermon on the mount, and which have long been 
supposed to be the common White lilies of our gardens, 5 
are now proved to be the Scarlet lilies which cover the 
plains of Syria—the Lilium chalcedonicum of botanists. 
It has been shewn by the researches of botanical tra¬ 
vellers, that the White lily is not a native of Palestine, 
or any part of Syria; but our space does not allow of 
our producing the full evidence which established the 
identity of the true “ lily of the field.” 
Blood-red Sweet William ( Dietnthus cruentus ).— 
Flore des Serves, t. 488.—It is doubtful whether this very 
pretty flower is a native of Siberia or Caucasus ; but the 
more important information that it is a hardy herba¬ 
ceous plant is certain. It was introduced by Dr. Fischer 
into the Botanic Garden of St. Petersburgh, and from 
thence into Belgium by M. Van Houtte. Its nearest 
allies are D. barbatus (Sweet William) and I). Carthu- 
sianorum (Carthusian Pink). Leaves light green, in a tuft, 
from which rise the flower-stems, bearing globular heads 
of flowers of a colour intimated by the name. They are 
pleasingly associated with the violet colour of the calyx, 
or outer covering of the flower-bud, hairs of the same 
colour, and the reddish brown bracts, or leafy appen¬ 
dages of the flower-stalks. The genus Diantlius well 
merits its name, derived from words implying “ a divine 
flower;” for it includes such beautiful and fragrant spe¬ 
cies as the Sweet William, Pink, and Clove Pink, with 
its varieties the Carnation and Picotee. It belongs to 
the Natural Order Clove-worts (Caryophyllacse), and the j 
10 —Decandria, 2—Digynia of Linmeus.—B. J. 
THE EMJIT-GABDEN. 
Pikes. —At this period, when light lias undergone 
such a vast decrease, the heat must be also kept in due 
subjection. We have before explained how that, with 
regard to the general management of artificial climates, 
