LILIUM. 
tecture and sculpture; because it 
grows compact, is of a deep green 
eolour, bears the shears well, and 
the leaves being small, they are 
not disfigured by clipping, like 
those of the Holly or the Laurel. 
The Box equals it in the smallness of 
the leaves, but it grows more slowly ; 
and though the Juniper and Yew 
surpass it, because their leaves never 
show the mark of the shears, they 
grow much slower still. The Privet 
grows in any soil and situation, 
even in narrow courts amid coal- 
smoke, and it is readily propagated 
by cuttings. It also grows under 
the shade of trees, and is therefore 
admirably adapted for thickening 
and darkening narrow shrubberies 
and screening of plantations. Asa 
single object, the Privet is very or- 
namental, whether covered with 
its white flowers or its dark-purple 
berries; and there are varieties 
with green, white, and yellow ber- 
ries, and variegatedleaves. Ligits- 
trum liciduwm and spicatum, 
are very ornamental sub-evergreen 
shrubs or low trees, natives of 
China and Nepal; but they are 
liable to be injured by very severe 
winters. These two species are 
propagated by budding or grafting 
on the common Privet. 
Linacu.—See Syai'nGa. 
Liliaceae, or Tulipa- 
cea.—T he Lily is the most splendid 
genus of bulbous plants. All the 
species are beautiful, and most of 
them arehardy. Lilium candidum 
grows from three feet to five feet 
high, and its pure white flowers, 
which appear in June, are well 
known from being placed by paint- 
ers in the hands of the Virgin. JL. 
bulbiferum, a native of Italy, has 
orange flowers, which appear in 
June and July, and the plant is 
equally high with the preceding 
species. L. philadélphicum grows 
five feet or six feet high, and pro- 
duces its fine scarlet flowers in 
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LIMAX. 
August. . Pomponium is a splen. 
did species, with scarlet flowers, 
produced in May and June; and ZL. 
tigrinum grows six feet high, and 
produces its black-spotted orange 
flowers in August and September. 
There are many other hardy spe- 
cies in cultivation; and Z. eximium, 
L. japonicum, L. longiflorum, and 
some others eminently beautiful, 
and chiefly with white flowers, re- 
quire the protection of the green- 
house, or a cold frame. ‘The spe- 
cies which are natives of America 
thrive best in sandy peat, kept 
moist when the plants are in a 
growing state; but the others grow 
freely in common garden soil. They 
are all readily propagated by offsets, 
which they produce in abundance. 
The bulbs of all the species are 
probably edible when cooked, for 
those of L. Pompénium are used in 
Kamtschatka in the same way as 
potatoes are in Britain; and they 
all belong to what are called the 
scaly bulbs, which may remain 
several years in the ground without 
taking up, and which, when they 
are taken up, should be planted 
again as soon as possible. 
Lity.—See Li'iium. 
Lity or THE VALLEY.—See Con- 
VALLA‘RIA. 
Li'max.—This is the scientific 
name for the slug, one of the most 
destructive creatures in existence 
fora garden. The slug differs from 
the snail in having no apparent 
shell, though it has the rudiments 
of a shell buried in the upper part 
of its body. Like the snail, also, it 
can only crawl when the earth is 
moist with rain or dew: as when 
the ground is dry, it absorbs too 
much of the slime which both slugs 
and snails are obliged to discharge 
from their bodies to enable them to 
glide along. There are many kinds 
of slugs, nearly all of which are 
destructive to vegetation ; the onl 
exception being the shell-slug (Tes- 
