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between the rows, and some of them more ; but I shall mention 
the height of each species as I go along, that is, in enumerating 
the species, as far as I am able. 
As soon as the plants are all done flowering, it will be necessary 
to take them up, and throw out the soil that is in the bed, that it 
may get the benefit of the air and rain, so as to sweeten it, and 
prepare it again for the following season ; and, when filling it in, 
it should have some more manure put at the bottom of the bed, 
and also some fresh compost should be added. When the 
bulbs are taken up, they should be put into a cool and dry place, 
and covered over with dry sphagnum , or bog moss, as that will 
keep them fresh and healthy. The planting should again take 
place in January as before ; and so on with them every year. It 
will be necessary to take away all the small bulbs from the 
flowering one before planting; and by following this plan, I am 
confident that a most beautiful show of flowers will be got. 
I should have mentioned, that a bed should be found for the 
young bulbs, to get them on to a flowering state, so that they may 
be ready to be put in, if any of the flowering bulbs should die> 
and also to forward any of those that are rare. They should not be 
taken up till they are in a flowering state : they then should be 
treated the same as those in the flowering bed are. 
The leading species are as follows :—■ 
Lii.ium si eciosum roseum .—This splendid species, a good figure 
of which is given in the November number of the “ Florist’s 
Journal,” belongs to the sixth class and first order of the artifi¬ 
cial system, as it is called, or rather the Linnean system more 
properly speaking, and to the natural order tulipacea : the sepals 
and petals are of a delicate rose colour, beautifully spotted with 
red,—or I rather should have said, red tubercles, or glands, 
which give the whole plant a splendid appearance. The leaves 
are oval, lancet-shaped, somewhat pointed ; the stem rises to the 
height of three feet, and is finely branched, and bears about forty 
to fifty flowers, which open in rapid succession. There is not any. 
plant I know which can vie with this in beauty. I ask, is this not 
deserving of the greatest care and attention in its cultivation ? The 
figure given was flowered at Messrs. Rollisson’s nursery, Tooting ; 
and they have some young plants. It is a very difficult one to 
increase, and I fear will continue rare for some time. * It is a 
native of Japan, and, I believe, will prove hardy, or nearly so, 
