The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . nicas (Speedwell) on the other hand, are, withsome exceptions, flowers of considerable delicacy and meanest of the genus is the Veronica serpyllifolia, PaulsBetony, found in great abundance by damp waysides, andonly about two inches high. The Marsh Speedwell bears adelicate purple flower, borne from the axils of the leaves,and growing in the shallows of small streams. The finestspecies are such as have been naturalized. Allied to the Veronica is the genus Gratiola (Hyssop.)The Hedge
The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . nicas (Speedwell) on the other hand, are, withsome exceptions, flowers of considerable delicacy and meanest of the genus is the Veronica serpyllifolia, PaulsBetony, found in great abundance by damp waysides, andonly about two inches high. The Marsh Speedwell bears adelicate purple flower, borne from the axils of the leaves,and growing in the shallows of small streams. The finestspecies are such as have been naturalized. Allied to the Veronica is the genus Gratiola (Hyssop.)The Hedge Hyssop (G. aurea vel officinalis) is found by theborders of ponds and brooksides, producing an abundance ofyellow tubular flowers in September. Its supposed medicinalqualities cannot be traced to any intrinsic virtue of the plant. LILIUM TENUIFOLIUM. BY THE EDITOR. The additions to the Lily tribe, within a few years, havebeen numerous, and most of them of the greatest has been the source of supply, and the L. auratum therichest acquisition since the introduction of the L. 7. LILIUM TEICUIFOLIUH. 212 THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. The species and varieties now number, according to some ofthe most authentic German Catalogues, upwards of 60. Several of the latest Japan varieties, or species, have notfound their way into collections, neither are they so distinctin character as the L. auratum, but they will add to theimportance of the lily tribe, which holds a place scarcelysecond to any among the decorative garden or conservatoryplants. The lilies are as yet but half appreciated, in fact, the bestkinds are but little known. Even the old L. japonicum isyet rare, and the true L. japonicum or Brownii, is scarcelyseen outside of the collection of the enthusiastic hope, with the attention now directed to the L. auratum,all the lilies, without exception, will be more highly valued,and generally introduced into our gardens. The L. tenuifolium (fig. 7) is
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