LILIUM CANDIDUM. 
after which the pleasure ground is evidently thinned of its 
beauty. 
Of the White Lily there are three principal varieties. 
I. With double flowers. II. With flowers blotched with 
purple. III. With striped leaves, or leaves edged with yellow. 
The first two of these are esteemed merely as curiosities. 
The third plant acquires an accession of beauty which it has 
not originally, and to which the flower garden is greatly in- 
debted for one of its chief ornaments. 
The Lily increases most abundantly by offsets; hence it 
becomes necessary that the bulbs should be taken up and re- 
duced every second or third year; but the striped-leaved vari- 
ety increases much more slowly, and should therefore remain 
unmolested for a greater length of time. There is scarcely a 
soil or situation in which the Lily will not grow: it will thrive 
most in a soil moderately stiff and moist. Though a native 
itself of a warm climate, moderate severity of weather does 
not appear to affect it, and therefore we may learn not to 
regulate the culture of plants invariably by the climate in 
which they grow spontaneously. ‘The best time for removing 
the bulbs of this plant is about the middle of August, but 
they may be transplanted almost at any time in the fall or 
spring. 
CHEMICAL AND MEDICAL PROPERTIES AND USES. 
The scent of the Lily is so powerful that sometimes persons 
are distressed to have the flowers near them, especially in a 
room, and there is a species cultivated under the name of the 
Tuberose, which is much more powerful, especially in the _ 
evening. This is one of the flowers that has been seen to 
emit electric sparks, which are supposed to be of electric ori-_ 
gin. In general, however, the flowers of the Lily have an 
agreeable odor, which they impart to oil or lard, and an oint- 
ment or liniment is sometimes prepared from them and used 
as a soothing application in external inflammations. The in- 
fusion of the flowers of the Lily in olive-oil is emollient, and 
often applied externally under the name of Lily-oil. This oil 
was anciently esteemed for its virtues. It was applied to any 
part affected with pain or inflammation, particularly in cases 
_* There is nothing,” says Mons. Tournefort, “very remark- 
able in the flowers of the Lily, ori that, —— oe 
gestive and anodyne faculty, they have also an anti-hysteric 
quality. Infuse them for ina in wine, and so distil 
