. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . this direction. She hasalso been almost prodigal of sunlight—an elementof the utmost importance for adequate and suc-cessful cultivation. During last year the sunwas conspicuous by his absence ; nevertheless,wherever they received the most ordinaryattention. Lilies were so successful as toastonish their cultivators. This, doubtless, was incurring the one by the avoidance of the other,thus emphasing horticulturally the memorableaphorism of Alexander Pope : Man never is, butalways to be blessd. Of the
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . this direction. She hasalso been almost prodigal of sunlight—an elementof the utmost importance for adequate and suc-cessful cultivation. During last year the sunwas conspicuous by his absence ; nevertheless,wherever they received the most ordinaryattention. Lilies were so successful as toastonish their cultivators. This, doubtless, was incurring the one by the avoidance of the other,thus emphasing horticulturally the memorableaphorism of Alexander Pope : Man never is, butalways to be blessd. Of the Lilies that have this season completelyeclipsed all their previous achievements, Liliummonadelphum var. Szovitsianum and come easily first. These have reachedhere a height of nearly 8 feet, and one strongspecimen of the Chinese Lily, at present insplendid bloom, has produced thirty fine Lily is somewhat arduous to classify;it has, indeed, been generally characterised as adark yellow-coloured speciosum, but this is hardlyan adequate description, for it has attributes. Fig. 77.—view of flower-bed representing the .t.^panese flag in the pence recreation geoixd. Eis to reproduce the design of the Japanese nationalflag (see fig. 77). We are indebted to the kind-ness of the Superintendent, Mr. William Waller,for the following description: The bed itself is24 feet in length, of which the flag occupies 9 portion representing the sun is planted withAlternanthera versicolor, and the rays with A. ses-silis amcena, the rays being divided from eachother by plants of a species of Antennaria, whileSaxifragas form an edging, the whole being sur-rounded by a broad band of the golden-leavedSpergula. The design at either end is plantedwith species of Cotyledon, Crassula, Sempervivum,Herniaria glabra, Alternanthera paronychioides,and A. magnifica. The bed was made with aslope towai-ds the pah, and the whole of theplants are well coloured. Our illustration isrepr
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