10 FLORA HISTORICA. 



it will prosper in almost any soil and situation ; 

 and as it increases readily by oiFsets from the 

 parent-bulb, it is become a common inmate in 

 most cottage-gardens, and held in less esteem than 

 many inferior flowers, which the difliculty of pro- 

 pagation renders rare, and consequently valuable. 



The offsets should be removed from the old bulb 

 every third year, and the month of August is the 

 proper season for transplanting them. They should 

 be covered with about five inches of earth, but on 

 no account should they be removed in the spi'ing 

 of the year, as this is found to check their flower- 

 ing for several years. 



As this species of Lily sends up a stem of from 

 three to four feet in height, it is better calculated to 

 plant amongst shrubs than in the small quarters of 

 the flower-garclpn • nnfl wlicn uiixcd with clumps 

 of Roses, the effect is as agreeable to the eye as 

 appropriate to the emblematical couibiiiatioii of 

 Purity and Beauty. It gives a great relief and 

 cheerfulness to heavy clumps of Evergreens, and is 

 a charming embelhshment to the borders of woods, 

 or wilderness scenery. The Lily continues in 

 flower from about the middle of June to the 

 middle of August ; and as its fragrance is of an 

 agreeable kind in the open air, no garden should be 

 without this noble and highly ornamental flower. 

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