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THE FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
the chequered or Guinea-fowl tulip (F. meleagris). Where col¬ 
lections of them are cultivated, they are usually placed in beds of 
sandy loam, or any light garden soil, by themselves; or they are 
dotted about in the flower borders, where they may be best seen. 
They are increased by offsets, and only require to be occasionally 
transplanted. 
The African Lily (Agapanthus umbellatus). —This fine 
ornamental plant, though usually considered a denizen of the 
greenhouse, is yet so nearly hardy that we often see it flowering 
beautifully in the cottage window, so that a very slight winter 
protection is sufficient. Loam, enriched with a little rotten dung, 
is the compost in which it thrives best, and it is easily increased 
by dividing the root, or by seed, which is sometimes produced. 
There are three species. The flowers are bright blue and hexan- 
drious, and the plant belongs to Hemerocallidacecz. 
Day Lily (HemerocallisJ, so called from the fugitive cha¬ 
racter of the flowers, which rarely last longer than one day, though 
there are a succession of them borne on the same stem. The 
colours of the flowers are not brilliant, and the flag-like appear¬ 
ance of the leaves renders the plant fit only for a shrubbery. This 
genus gives a title to a pretty large natural order, viz. Hemerocal- 
lidacece , which includes many fine exotic plants ; among the rest, 
the extensive genus aloe. 
A new genus, separated from Hemerocallis, called Funkia , 
natives of China, is hardy enough to stand in our open borders. 
There are two species, F. subcordata and F. ovata: the first has 
white flowers, appearing but seldom ; the second has purplish- 
blue flowers, and blooms freely. It has been suggested, that if 
the root of the white one was taken out of the ground, and dried 
for a month before it is planted again on a warm situation, this 
would probably throw it into flower. 
The Iris. —This is one of the most gaudy of our border flowers, 
and as remarkable for its curious and elegant figure as it is for 
its brilliancy of tints. There are above four score species, natives 
of every zone of the earth’s surface in the northern hemisphere. 
Many are natives of the bleak regions of Siberia ; a few are Per¬ 
sian, five are North American, three are British, and numbers are 
from central Europe. They are generally fleshy-rooted, and some 
few are bulbous; both pretty easy of culture and of increase by 
division. They mostly affect a sandy soil ; and some, as the 
