17-2 glenny's handbook 



Plants are easily raised from seeds sown an inch apart in 

 pans, and placed in heat. When up let them be removed to 

 the greenhouse, and be undisturbed two seasons ; they may 

 then be placed in three-inch pots, and removed to larger as 

 they grow until they flower. They are more generally multi- 

 plied by offsets, which form round the old roots, and such 

 plants sooner reach a flowering size. These Japan Lilies are, 

 however, suflBciently hardy to be grown in prepared beds in 

 the open air, if the beds are covered with some light compost 

 in winter ; and grown thus they form fine autumn-blooming 

 subjects. The hardy European and North Asian kinds grow 

 generally well in a rich sandy loam ; but the American, like 

 the Japanese kinds, prefer a compost containing a consider- 

 able proportion of peat. They are all increased from offsets, 

 which are generally produced abundantly, or by separating the 

 scales of the bulbs and planting them as offsets. Some propa- 

 gate from little bulb-buds which are formed in the axils of 

 their leaves, and most of them may be multiplied from seeds 

 when it is worth while to raise them by this more tedious 

 process. The seeds should be sown as soon as ripe. The 

 bulbs of Lilies should not be suffered to dry when they are 

 taken out of the ground for transplantation. One of the most 

 striking modern additions to this family is the Indian L. 

 gir/anteum, a stately plant, eight to ten feet high, with large 

 heart-shaped leaves. It may be grown as directed for L. 

 speciosum, requiring that each bulb, if of flowering size, 

 should have a separate pot of from twelve to eighteen inches 

 in diameter. The species and varieties are endless, 



LILY OF THE VALLEY. See Convallaria. 



LIMNANTHES. [Tropseolace^.] Hardy annuals of 

 trailing habit, with neat but not showy flowers. They may 

 be sown in the open borders in March, and again in April for 

 succession. They are not very particular as to soil, but 

 prefer a moist situation. They flower in about six weeks 

 from the time of sowing. 



LIMNOCHARIS. [Butomacese.] Stove aquatics, one of 

 which, L. Humboldtii, succeeds in the open air in ponds or 

 tanks, where the water is warmed by any artificial means. 

 It bears beautiful yellow flowers all the summer. Propagated 

 by its runners, which strike root on the muddy soil. 



