This is the season when these superb flowers are blooming. Let us compel all who have either of the varieties, to save seed, and to hybridise them with some of our native species. Some growers have done this, but we are not aware that any great result has hitherto arisen. It is perhaps rather soon to expect it, for it takes three years at least to • flower a seedling from the time of sowing; and therefore much may be in store for us yet, of those now in process of growth; and besides, judging by analogy from the hybrids of other flowers, we must not expect to get distinct and fine new sorts without continued application. No trouble however, or time either, can be thrown away in this matter, for if strikingly new varieties are not produced, all the seedlings will be beautiful; and it will be a long time yet before the stock of these splendid ornaments of our green-houses and gardens at all approaches what we should like to see. There is a fine lot of these seedlings coming into bloom at Mr. Boll's nursery, at New-York. We heartily wish him success. We do not generally see these Lilies grown so well as they ought to be. We have grown L. lancifolium punctatum, ten feet high, with from 10 to 16 flowers as well as the stem and leaves of a size proportionately large to that height.

This variety is always both earlier and taller than Rubrom, or Album, and when duly encouraged in its growth forms a much more majustic plant; although in beauty it must yield to the first of them. Black peat earth is by no means essential to this plant, as many suppose; good loam, well enriched, it delights in.