THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 195 
nursery, Tottenham, may be seen at the present time a magnificent 
collection of lilies, growing in a good yellow loam, prepared for them 
by deep digging and liberal mianuring. A lover of lilies should see 
this display. 
Lilies force well; but they are not all worth forcing. Those that 
pay best for the care required to produce an extra early bloom, are 
Auratum, Longiflorum, and Candidum ; the last two being peculiarly 
well adapted to supply flowers for Easter decorations. Tt would be 
quite as easy to secure these real lilies as the so-called trumpet lilies 
(Calla AEthiopica), which are in such general request at Easter. 
Reference to past volumes, especially since 1866, will supply 
information on all the species and varieties of lilies hitherto culti- 
vated in this country, save and except the very distinct Giganteum, 
which can now be disposed of in a few words, for there is really 
not much to be said about it. The first requisite in the cultivation 
of this plant is patience, for you may wait years ere you are re- 
warded with a bloom. It requires a rich, strong soil, plenty of water 
all the summer, and to be moderately moist all winter. “It should 
be shifted into a larger pot every year as soon as the leaves die 
down, and in this process the roots should be preserved intact. After 
flowering, it should be divided, and the divisions potted into 
smallish pots, to be shifted on again to larger and larger pots until 
they ower. A cool greenhouse or pit is the proper place for it in 
the winter, and from the time it begins to grow it should have 
abundance of air and light. Sidi. 
NEW WAYS OF CULTIVATING LAPAGERIAS. 
BY THOMAS TRUSSLER, 
The Nurseries, High Path, Edmonton. 
Sg HE general cultivation of Lapageria rosea has been so 
() clearly explained in the communications specially re- 
ferring to it, which have appeared in the past issues of 
the Frornan Wortp, that on the present occasion I 
shall not allude to it otherwise than in the briefest 
manner possible ; my object in referring to it is simply to show that 
as yet its capabilities for general decorations are not well known, 
and to suggest that its cultivation should not be confined exclusively 
to the greenhouse and conservatory. At the present time the 
number is not large of cultivators who are aware that the conserva- 
tory is not the only place in which it can be grown with any degree 
of success, and I shall be probably doing good service by giving 
publicity to the fact that Lapagerias will grow with amazing vigour, 
and produce a profusion of flowers in the Orchid-house, and that it 
is sufficiently hardy to be grown entirely out-of-doors in the south- 
ern and western counties. Its cultivation may, therefore, be widely 
extended with advantage, and residents in warm, sheltered localities 
may plant it out-of-doors with the full assurance of being rewarded 
with a splendid display of flowers. 
duly. : 
