Galanthus Elwesii.

Elwes's Galanthus or Snowdrop; Nat. Ord. Amaryllidaceæ.

This is a splendid species or variety, whichever it may be, said to be the finest of all the Snowdrops; it is a new kind and not yet much known. My impressions of it last spring were not in accordance with such reports, but I ought to add that, though the bulbs were fresh when sent me, they had only been planted less than a year, when they flowered somewhat feebly.

Flowering period, February and March.

All the Snowdrops may be propagated by seed or division of crowded clumps—after all the tops have died off is the proper time; the longer the delay, the worse for next season's bloom, as new root action sets in about that period.