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Lilium—continued. 
Fie. 517. Linium BRownil. 
grown in a light, rieh soil. It is also a first-class pot- 
Lily. _ If species have been few, varieties have been 
particularly numerous, and the more noteworthy of these 
will be found described below. 
For general purposes the best kinds are to be found 
in L. candidum (despite the fact that this is attacked in 
some seasons by a Bofrytis-form), L. croceum, L. Martagon, 
L. umbellatum and its varieties, pyrenaicum, 
L. Henryi, L. tigrinum and varieties, L. Brownii 
(Fig. 517), L. elegans (Thunbergianum, Fig. 518), 
L. Hansoni, L.- speciosum Kretzeri, and L. awratum 
platyphyllum. 
For pot culture the most useful are DL. longiflorum, 
L. \. Harrisii (Bermuda or Easter Lily), L. 1. robustum, 
L. candidum, L. auratum (Fig. 519) and its varieties, 
L. speciosum, L. Henryii, L. nepalense, L. sulphureum, 
L. umbellatum and its varieties, L. 
varieties, and DL. rubellum. 
A point to bear in mind in cultivating Lilies is to 
disturb them as little as possible; this may be done by 
affording top-dressings of soil annually. If it be abso- 
lntely necessary to transplant any, care should be taken 
that this is done at the proper season—as soon as the 
stems have died down—say from late August onwards till 
October. With the species and varieties at command, 
and the method of retarding the bulbs now adopted, it 
is possible to have Lilies all the year round. Indeed, in 
the ontdoor garden, one variety or another may be had in 
flower from the end of May until October, and later in 
some districts and seasons. 
Pests. Lilies, although they cannot boast an immunity 
from pests, are singularly free from them. There are. 
however, one or two species which are affected by fungoid 
diseases—for instance, L. awratum and L. speciosum are 
attacked by Rhizopus necans, and L. candidwm by a 
Botrytis-form of Sclerotinia. Both diseases are very 
destructive, and call for vigorous measures. ‘The first 
elegans and its > 
THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Lilium—continued. 
is thought to be induced by the bulbs being shipped 
from Japan at the wrong season—during the sultry, 
moist weather incidental to the summer of that conntry— 
instead of in autumn (October), when the soil is dry, 
and the bulbs are properly matured. From this it would 
seem that the remedy lay rather with the exporter than 
with the grower, who maybe is anxious to get the bulbs 
on the market irrespective of season. Again, the conditions 
under which the bulbs are shipped to this country are those 
conducive to the spread of the disease, by causing them 
to ‘‘ sweat.” 
If; as was suggested some time back in the ‘* Gardeners’ 
Chronicle,’’ a method of cold storage were adopted, the 
disease now so fatal might be reduced to a minimum. 
Being, however, a wound-fungns, the disease is readily 
contracted, as it has been conclusively shown that it lives 
2s a saprophyte in the soil. Bulbs affected with the 
disease show signs of discoloration, which gradually 
spreads until they become absolutely rotten, and then 
disclose the white mycelium. 
In the ‘‘Kew Bulletin,’’ for 1897, Mr. Massee deals at 
length with this disease, and illustrates its various phases. 
He moreover suggests that as a means of prevention, 
bulbs intended for export should be first subjected to 
a 1 per cent. solution of salicylic acid for twenty 
minutes, and afterwards well dried. This would destroy 
the spores of the fungus. Further preventive measures 
consist in burning all rotten bulbs. 
The other species of fungus attacks all parts of the 
plant above the soil, and is particularly destructive to 
the flower-buds, causing them to rot. This disease is 
most injurious during wet, damp weather—conditions 
favourable to its development. Minute rusty spots are 
usually first noticed upon leaves and flower-buds, and 
FIG, 
518. LILIUM THUNBERGIANUM. 
