176 BULBS AND TUBEROUS-ROOTED PLANTS. 
food. In its native habitat it is perfectly hardy ; at least, 
it is never injured by the excessive cold. Here it is 
not hardy, and must be protected against frost in order 
to secure blooms. Why? Simply because, in its Sibe- 
rian home, the first indication of winter is a snowstorm 
that covers the ground so deeply that frost rarely, if 
ever, enters the ground atall. In our temperate clime 
the earth is frozen to a depth entirely unknown there, 
notwithstanding their climate is much the colder. 
The same is true in regard to the Martagon, the 
bulbs of which are largely used by the Cossacks as a 
vegetable; with them it is perfectly hardy; with us, in 
a much milder climate, it will rarely survive but a single 
season, unless protected, but with that precaution, it 
grows with much more vigor here than in its native 
home. In England all the Turks’ Cap Lilies grow to a 
size unknown where they are indigenous. ‘This is be- 
cause, in England, the frost never reaches them, and the 
other conditions of growth are more favorable. 
The White Turks’ Cap Lily, Lilium Martagon 
album, mm the northern part of New York, in the North- 
ern States, and in Lower Canada, thrives with all the 
vigor of a native plant. We have known this bulb, in 
one locality, to increase so fast that it crowded out other 
bulbs in the garden, and was regarded as a native plant. 
Near the ocean it is rarely seen, in fact, cannot be grown, 
excepting it be protected from frost, either by a frame, 
or by mulching. Away from the Atlantic coast, and in 
Germany, its native home, the snow affords ample 
protection. 
In many sections of our country, where the ground 
is usually covered with snow during winter, Lilies of all 
kinds grow to the greatest perfection. We have seen 
finer bulbs of the Auratum, Brown, Chalcedonicum, 
Martagon and other species grown in Vermont, where 
they were protected by snow, than we have ever seen 
grown in any other country. Here the Auratum is 
