202 BULBS AND TUBEROUS-ROOTED PLANTS. 
drooping, bell-shaped yellow flowers, shaded with orange. 
Like all indigenous plants, it is easily grown, and capa- 
ble of improvement by gvod cultivation. Its varieties 
are : 
Var. rubrum.—A strong grower, free flowering ; 
color bright crimson, with small spots. In clumps, 
under cultivation, it is exceedingly beautiful. 
Var. favum.—This has the same general habit as 
the foregoing; its flowers are bright yellow, slightly 
tinged with crimson, and spotted with brown. 
Var. parvum.—A form common im California, 
growing from four to six feet high, and bears in a raceme 
on long stalks, a great number of pendulous, small yel- 
low dotted flowers, with broad, blunt petals; foliage in 
whorls. 
Var. parviflorum.—A form ciose:y resembling the 
above, differing in its lower growth and smaller flowers. 
Var. maritimum.—Is a small-flowered maritime 
Lily, found in low, peaty meadows on the coast near 
San Francisco. The flowers are deep reddish orange- 
brown, spotted dark purple inside. Like most of the 
California Lilies, this variety does not lke the Eastern 
climate of America, and does not succeed weil there. 
L. candidum.—This species is older than history, 
as the first notice made of plants speaks of it as a ‘‘ well- 
known plant.” It is the loveliest, as well as the oldest, 
and if we were to have but.one Lily, Candidum would 
be the one. As a garden flower the cultivation of 
Candidum is most simple. It will thrive in any fairly 
good soil, but to insure a free growth and a profusion of 
flowers, the soil should be rich, deep and moist. - It is, 
therefore, best to make suitable arrangements for the 
bed by first selecting a favorable situation, and then put- 
ting it in the most perfect condition by digging deep 
and enriching thoroughly. Plantings should always -be 
made in August, when the bulbs are at rest; very soon 
