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a few bulbs, three or four in each pot, of the sorts next to be recom- 

 mended. If frame room is valuable through the winter, simply 

 plunge the pots out of doors in a bed of refuse or ashes, to keep the 

 frost from cracking the pots, and remove the plunging material from 

 the surface directly the youug growth comes through the soil, to 

 prevent the stems becoming drawn and blanched. The following, 

 though perfectly hardy and suited for the open borders, are peculiarly 

 well adapted for pot culture. If conservatory furnishers would 

 deal with them in a more liberal manner, the poverty and sameness 

 to be met with in most conservatories through July and August 

 would be completely remedied. L. longiflorum is one of our best, 

 the habit being dwarf with immense highly fragrant trumpet-shaped 

 flowers. A fitting companion, though flowering rather earlier, is the 

 bright scarlet-flowered L. tenuifolium. We have not exhausted the 

 whites yet, for we have a grand subject in L. eximeum, which is rather 

 larger in growth than tenuifolium. L. colcliicum, a noble species, the 

 flowers sulphur-coloured with purple spots ; L. japonicum (or L. 

 Broicni), white and purple ; and the pretty dwarf scarlet L.pulchellvm 

 are all valuable, whether for the open border, or to grow in pots. 

 Nor must we omit the lovely buff-coloured L. excelsum, which grows 

 to a height of four feet, and is therefore valuable for back rows, or 

 mixing with tall-growiug ferns, and, as a rule, is better suited for the 

 open ground than for pots. 



L. giganteum must have a separate paragraph. It is the king 

 of lilies, as the golden-striped lily is the queen. It is not well 

 adapted for pot culture, yet may be grown to some degree of perfec- 

 tion in a pot. We have found that if strong bulbs are potted singly 

 in pots at least eight inches over, in good lumpy peat alone, with 

 plenty of drainage, they do better than with any mixtures, and make 

 a vigorous growth from the first. If the pots are well filled with 

 roots, and the plants have a lusty appearance, shift them iuto twelve- 

 inch pots in September, and let this be done without breaking the 

 old ball, and without removing the crocks. As for the i*est, frame 

 treatment, with abundance of water when in free growth, is all 

 that is required. It is hardy in the southern and western counties, 

 and a great clump of it left untouched for several years presents 

 about as noble a spectacle as we can in any way derive from hardy 

 herbaceous plants. The best example of this Jjilium, treated as a 

 hardy 'plant, that we have met with is in the garden of Miss Young, 

 near Taunton. There it revels in a deep bed of peat, which it covers 

 with its great glossy leaves all the winter, and in summer throws up 

 gigantic tufts of its elegant white bell-shaped flowers. 



For out-door work exclusively we have first the orange lily, L. 

 croceum, commonly known as aurantiacum, etc. ; then again the 

 common white lily, L. candidum, which is one of the grandest sub- 

 jects imaginable for cutting for vases. The scarlet martagon, L. 

 chalcedonium, must be added to the most select collection, as much 

 for its free habit as its brilliant flowers. L. bulbiferum is in the way 

 of the common orange Wly, but blooms earlier and is dwarfer in 

 habit. Then again we have L. [hunberc/ianum, a very fine species, L. 

 fulgens, and the good old tiger lily, L. tigrinum. There are many 



