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they occupy may be required, by adopting a different mode of 
planting. Instead of placing the roots into the bed they are 
intended to ornament, let them be planted in boxes, and in this 
manner plunged into the places set apart for them, then the}^ 
may be removed at pleasure without injury. The shape and 
dimensions of these boxes may be varied to suit particular cir¬ 
cumstances, but they should all be at least one foot deep, and 
in planting the bulbs should be kept near the surface, that there 
may be a sufficient depth of earth for the roots to derive their 
required nourishment. Square boxes would, perhaps, be pre¬ 
ferable, as they may be more easily made, and are convenient to 
pack away when not in use; and if they are of several sizes, 
almost any figure in the flower-beds may be filled sufficiently 
close with them. 
By adopting this mode w T e may very much increase our pre¬ 
sent scanty supply of early flowering plants, by introducing for 
a time such as have been found too delicate to bear the rough 
treatment we have described., and yet be enabled to remove 
them without prejudice when their beauty has left them. In 
the class of plants under consideration, in addition to the common 
N. poeticus or N.incomparabilis, and even N. Pseudo-Narcissus, 
now nearly the only kinds to be met with in the open air (which 
are grown simply because they cannot be killed), we may have 
any or all of the finer sorts. Nor is it with Narcissi alone that 
the advantages of this method of removal rests ; there are many 
other plants, known to every gardener, which are extremely 
beautiful while in flower, but not at all desirable when it is over, 
at the same time will not bear the check consequent on hasty 
or premature removal ; and we feel satisfied the trifling expense 
or additional trouble is more than met by the increased means 
afforded. Ed. 
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Orciiidace^e. — Gynandria Monandria. 
Angrcecum pellucidum. The flowers of this beautiful vanda-like plant are 
as delicate and transparent as if they were flakes of snow fixed by frost in 
the very act of melting. Each part of the lip is studded and bordered with 
little crystalline elevations, and the whole fabric of the blossom is as fragile 
as thin plates of glass. It was imported by Messrs. Loddiges from Sierra 
Leone, with whom it flowered in November, 1842 — Bot. Reg. 
