If you are going to bring lilies up to town from the country, cut the buds off just before they open. These stand less risk of damage in moving, and they will open perfectly if placed in water. Cut lilies are thirsty plants and need a lot of water. They last from one to two weeks if plentifully watered, but die almost immediately when water is withheld. We have before warned you against spoiling your lilies by removing the anthers. A lovely little lily is _Lilium Krameri_. The delicate pink of its blossoms, its slender growth, its early flowering, and its fragrance render it worthy of a place in every garden. Like most of the lilies we have described, _L. Krameri_ hails from Japan. In most particulars it resembles a little _L. Auratum_, but its flowers are totally different from any other species. They are about four inches across, of a waxy white to deep blush pink colour. The anthers are brown. This lily flowers in June. It is not easy to do well with. It is rather tender and very susceptible to early frosts. Its cultivation is similar to that of _L. Auratum_. Last year there was exhibited in London flowers of a new lily somewhat resembling _L. Krameri_. It flowered at Kew in June, and we were fortunate enough to flower a specimen in our own garden. This new species has received the name of _Lilium Rubellum_, and, though it resembles _L. Krameri_, it is undoubtedly a true species. The flowers are small (our one was two and a half inches across), the petals have the tissue-paper look like a _Cistus_ instead of the waxy appearance presented by most lilies. The colour is a full rich pink, and the anthers are yellow. Its cultivation is similar to that of the other _Archelirions_. (_To be continued._) [Illustration] CHRONICLES OF AN ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN RANCH. BY MARGARET INNES. CHAPTER VII. WE MOVE INTO OUR HOME. It was delightful to feel that we would soon be once more in comfortable quarters, with room for order and cleanliness. The Californian dust is perfectly impossible to deal with in such conditions as the barn afforded, or as would be involved in camping. While we were still living in our little house in San Miguel, I had seen one or two camping parties returning after an absence of ten days or a fortnight in the mountains, and had wondered, with dismay, what could have happened to the women and men of the party, that they should look as though their persons and clothes had been rolled, and soaked, and stewed in the grey dust. Now I understood only too well. Soon, all the plastering was finished, and we were looking for the painters, who arrived, unfortunately, in the midst of another desert wind.