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constantly ; at the same time, it should be understood that lilies will 
not thrive in a water-logged or exceedingly heavy soil. 
This brings us to consider the proper soil for lilies, and it may 
be remarked, to begin with, that the same soil does not exactly suit 
all alike. For the lovely Lancifolium, or Speciosum section, turfy 
peat is certainly the best staple, and our market growers who flower 
these lilies superbly in small pots invariably use peat, or a mixture 
in which peat predominates. All the smaller and more delicate 
species require a peaty or loamy soil, containing a rather large pro- 
portion of sand, and they are partial also, as most other lilies are, to 
good leaf-mould. As for such robust kinds as Candidum, Auratum, 
Chalcedonicum, Bulbiferuam, Umbellatum, Thunbergianum, and 
Tigrinum, a deep sandy loam, enriched with thoroughly rotten 
mauure, suits them perfectly. As they love a cool rooting-ground, 
and are somewhat gross feeders, it is good practice to mulch the 
ground in summer with rotten manure ; but as this may be objection- 
able in many cases because tending to spoil the appearance of a bed 
of lilies, watering with weak liquid manure may be substituted, 
and in any case it should be remembered that every kind of lily 
requires abundance of moisture. 
A frequent cause of failure in the cultivation of lilies is the 
removal of the bulbs at the wrong season. So long as they are doing 
well they should be left undisturbed ; but after they have stood on 
the same spot some years, it may be advisable to lift, and part, and 
piant again on ground prepared for them by deep digging and 
manuring. The time to purchase is the autumn, and they should be 
planted or potted as soon as possible, because they begin at that 
season to make new roots, and thus prepare themselves for the next 
year’s flowering. The most accommodating in this respect are the 
varieties of the Lancifolium section, which may be kept dry in cocoa- 
nut fibre for a considerable length of time, and usually flower well, 
even if planted or potted late im the spring. But even with these, 
it is not well to put nature out of her course, and the earlier they 
are planted in the autumn the finer will the growth be, ceteris 
paribus, the next season. Our common white lily, L. candidum, 
should be trausplanted as soon after flowering as possible, for it 
begins to grow again almost immediately, and if disturbed too late, 
will not flower at all the next season. Many of the deaths of 
Auratums that occur are the result of removal at the wrong season, 
although this, the noblest of its race, is apt to die off through 
exhaustion after flowering, even with the best of treatment. 
All the lilies known in gardens are hardy in the best climates of 
Britain, but are not hardy in the general acceptation of the word. 
On our cold clay, the noble Giganteum and the lovely Longiflorum 
can only be grown as pot-plants, for although they may escape the 
severity of the winter, they begin to grow too soon in the spring, 
and are nipped by the east winds, and thus almost every year have 
such a struggle for life that flowering is rendered impossible. But 
in the qualified sense of the word, all lilies are hardy, and those best 
known in gardens owe their general diffusion to their hardiness and 
their capability of thriving in almost any kind of soil. At Ware's 
