LILIES AND IRIS 



need be used for the garden. But for a 

 small garden a bag each of bone meal and 

 phosphate, with some wood ashes occasion- 

 ally used sparingly, will help the plants 

 along surprisingly. Anyone can make leaf- 

 mould, which is a valuable addition, by sav- 

 ing the rakings of the Autumn leaves and 

 turning them occasionally until the follow- 

 ing Autumn, when they may be dug into 

 the beds. I do not intend to touch the soil 

 of my Lily and Iris garden for at least 

 four, and possibly five, years, beyond giving 

 it every year a mulch of fine manure or 

 leaf -mould when the plants are well up in 

 the Spring. 



All Lilies will flourish in rich loam to 

 which a good proportion of sand has been 

 supplied, and once planted, they should not 

 be removed as long as they are doing well. 



But if the leaves fall from the stalks and 

 the bulb seems unhealthy, it should be care- 

 fully dug up, any part of the bulb found in 

 a bad condition removed, the bulb dried 

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