Plates 513, 514. 

 LILIUM AURATUM— BEAUTY AND PICTUM. 



It is now eight years since the horticultural world was sur- 

 prised and delighted by the first sight of the magnificent 

 Lilhim Auratum, then for the first time exhibited. In the descrip- 

 tion given of it, it was described as one flowered, but in Mr. 

 Fortune's notes, published in the " Floral Magazine," it was 

 stated to produce four or five flowers on the one stem. Since 

 then it has been introduced by tens of thousands, and we have 

 seen plants exhibited with 190 blooms on them, some single 

 stems producing thirty or forty flowers ; very great variety 

 of colouring has also been manifested, of which, even at the 

 early period alluded to, we had already indications, the plants 

 from which the figures were taken for the "Botanical" and 

 " Floral Magazine," being of different shades of colour. 



Amongst the most frequent exhibitors of this beautiful lily 

 has been Mr. Bull, of Chelsea, and amongst his plants have been 

 some varieties of very great beauty of marking ; two of these 

 form the subjects of our plate. Beaut?/ (fig. 1) is a distinct variety-, 

 with a rich golden yellow band in the centre of each petal, the 

 whole of the flower being thicklj^ dotted over with rich 

 claret-coloured spots. Picfion (fig. 2) is a still more distinct 

 variety, having a golden yellow bar bordered with crimson, and 

 very thickly covered with rich crimson spots. Mr. Bull has also 

 exhibited one pure white, and in fact the varieties seem 

 endless. 



L. Auratum requires, we believe, to be repotted after the 

 stems have become yellow ; it should then be placed in a cool 

 pit or orchard- house, and watered but sparingly until the growth 

 commences. 



