LILIES AND IRIS 



is so like the wild onion that I was filled 

 with alarm when I saw the heds in the fol- 

 lowing April and immediately dug up a bulb 

 to satisfy myself that a crop of onions had 

 not appeared by magic; and, last of all, Chi- 

 nese Iris, but this did not bloom, although 

 flourishing and green, with foliage quite 

 similar to the Germanica. 



The different varieties were laid out on 

 the floor of the tool room, divided into 

 seven parts, and then planted in the seven 

 beds, some of which were larger than others. 



Of Lilies there were Auratum, Speciosum 

 Album and Speciosum Eubrum, Longiftorum, 

 Brownii, Batemanni, Krameri, Leichlinii f 

 Rubellum, Chalcedonicum, Excelsum, Su- 

 perbum, Wallace^ Canadense, and Hemero- 

 callis, the yellow Day Lily, in all eight 

 hundred Lilies and five hundred Iris. 



The Lilies were divided into seven parts 



like the Iris, and each bulb was set in sand, 



a foot in depth, and the small varieties from 



four to six inches deep. Some were planted 



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