50 GAKDEISING FOR PLEASURE. 



way as recommended for those placed out of doors, until 

 they also form roots, when, if placed in the light, in green- 

 Tiiouse or sitting-room, they will flower from February to 

 April, if kept in a temperature of sixty or seventy degrees. 

 Each bulb will give from three to twenty flowers, accord- 

 ino" to size, and not one in a hundred will fail if these 

 simple directions are followed. The flowers are four or 

 five inches in length, and frequently much longer, of the 

 purest white, and of the most delicious fragrance. 



The Bermuda Lily is entirely hardy, when planted in 

 the open ground, south of AVashington, and will stand 

 our winters in nearly all parts of the A^orthern and West- 

 ern States, if covered up with four or five inches of 

 dry leaves or litter, on the approach of cold weather in 

 December. 



Lilium candidum was formerly known also as the 

 Easter Lily, but the Bermuda Lily {L. Harrisi) has so 

 superseded its use for Easter decoration, that it is hardly 

 now known as such. It is entirely distinct from the 

 other, and grows from two to three feet in hight, pro- 

 ducing from six to ten flow^ers in a whorl at the top. Its 

 culture, both for forcing and growing in the open ground, 

 is almost identical with the Bermuda Lily, and it is well 

 worthy of cultivation. 



LILY OF THE VALLEY ( Convallavia majalis) 



is one of the most chaste and beautiful of all flowers. 

 When planted in the open ground, where it is entirely 

 hardy, its flowers are one of the first harbingers of spring. 

 It is forced in immense quantities for winter flowers. 

 The treatment is almost identical with that for Hyacinths 

 and Lilies, only, whether the *' pips" — the single *' eyes" — 

 or clumps containing a dozen or more ''eyes" are used, 

 they should be packed closely together m shallow boxes, 

 and placed out of doors or other cool place for eight to 

 nine weeks before being brought in to force for flowers 



