Towards the end of November, 1854, I prepared a bed for planting the bulbs of this beautiful Lily; the bed was four feet wide and nine feet long, composed of common garden soil, well dug and broken up with a fork, and without any manure, which I believe to be rather disadvantageous in the culture of this plant. The bed was afterwards raked level, and the bulbs planted on the surface, spreading out the fibres every way, with a distance of fourteen inches between each; they were covered with a light mixture of fine, sifted mould and sand, to a depth of four inches from the crown of the bulbs, and the surface neatly raked. After the stems were quite dead, in the following autumn, I took off the surface compost, without disturbing the bulbs, and laid fresh sandy soil over them to the depth of four inches, and this year I have been favored with a splendid show of their lovely blossoms, and am decidedly of opinion that this plant succeeds better, and has a more vigorous growth, thus treated, than when kept in the greenhouse. It is a most ornamental bulb, the flowers possessing also an agreeable fragrance, and should be more extensively grown than it is, meriting a place in every flower garden.

I have cultivated several other kinds of Japan Lilies out of doors with much success. - London Florist.