Of Moore’s personal valour, of his indomitable courage, of his desperate enthusiasm, no voice was ever heard in question. To his consummate generalship, his mingled audacity and calculation, this marvellous Retreat bore ample witness, but for many years it was not rightly understood by the mass of his own countrymen. Napoleon, Soult and Ney gauged him far more truly than did the average Englishman of his day. Not even against the future Wellington would Napoleon have poured such an overwhelming force as he launched against Moore. (_To be continued._) FOOTNOTES: [1] Written in memory of Moore by the Rev. C. Wolfe, about 1817. [2] These sentences were written before Lord Wolseley’s speech at Dumfries, June 15, 1898, in which he was reported as having said: “There could be little doubt in the minds of most soldiers who knew what Moore did, that, had he not been killed at the Battle of Coruña, _he_ would have been the great Commander who led the Peninsular War, and it was quite possible that that great man, whom they all worshipped, the Duke of Wellington, would not have been heard of. He did not say that to depreciate the services of the Duke of Wellington, who had been a rock of strength to this country; but possibly, had Sir John Moore lived, _his_ name would have been blazoned on the scroll of fame, as the man who won the great battle which crushed Napoleon’s power at Waterloo.” OUR LILY GARDEN. PRACTICAL AIDS TO THE CULTURE OF LILIES. BY CHARLES PETERS. What garden is complete without the good old tiger-lily? Other lilies are finer and more graceful, no doubt, but the old-fashioned tiger-lily will always hold its own in the struggle for popularity. Although we call it an old-fashioned flower, it has not been grown in England for so very long, being unknown before this century. It made a bit of a stir, too, when it first blossomed in England. And no wonder that it did, when we see what a grand sight a bed of these lilies really is. _Lilium Tigrinum_ is a native of China, but it has long been cultivated in Japan, and it is from the latter country that we obtain most of our foreign bulbs. A curious fact, which we have frequently noticed in connection with this lily, is that the size of the annual portion of the plant seems to bear no relation to the size of the bulb. In most lilies large bulbs produce fine plants, though we have seen that this is by no means always the case. But with _L. Tigrinum_ the shoot apparently bears no relation whatever to the size of the bulb. If planted in very good soil, all the bulbs of _L. Tigrinum_ seem to do equally well; whereas in an unsuitable soil all seem to fare equally poorly. The bulbs are heavy and white, with the scales very dense and closely packed. In growth this lily resembles _L. Auratum_ in some respects, and the members of the _Isolirion_ group in others. The leaves are very green and glossy, and are present in larger numbers than is commonly the case with lilies.