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LILIUM. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. LIMNANTHES. 



with a cluster of about a dozen brilliant 

 red turban-shaped flowers, which shine like 

 sealing-wax. It succeeds in open warm 

 borders of light sandy loam, but is all the 

 better for a hand-light or frame, as it 

 flowers very early. Siberia and N. China. 

 L. callosum and its form stenophyllum are 

 similar but less showy. 



L. TESTACEUM (Nankeen Lily}. This is 

 a distinct coloured Lily, and should always 

 be grown, being of easy culture and thriv- 

 ing in any ordinary soil, though preferring 

 one that is peaty. It has the growth of 



Lilium tcstaceutn. 



the white L. candidum, but the flowers are 

 a delicate apricot, or nankeen, colour. 

 When well grown it is 6 or 7 feet high, and 

 bears several flowers in a large spreading 

 head in late July. Other names for this 

 Lily are L. excelsum and isabellinum. 

 Excellent for deep sandy loam and leaf- 

 soil, and endures sun and heat better than 

 most Lilies. It is one of the plants that 

 grow freely in London. 



L. TIGRINUM (Tiger Lily). This is one 

 of the commonest kinds, and is too well 

 known to need description. No garden 

 should be without it, for few plants are 

 so attractive or have such stately growth. 

 The common kind is handsome, but the 

 variety splendens is much finer, having 

 larger flowers with larger spots, is produced 

 later, and grows 7 feet high. Fortunei is 

 an early form and as desirable as splendens. 

 The double-flowered variety (flore-pleno) 

 is showy and vigorous. Erectum also is 

 distinct and desirable . L . pseudo-tigrinum 

 and the varieties of Maximowiczi, though 

 referred to other species, much resemble 

 L. tigrinum. The Tiger Lily is very easy 

 of cultivation, thriving best in deep sandy 

 loam with an open but sheltered position. 

 The earliest varieties begin to flower at 

 the end of August, and the latest last till 

 the end of October. The Tiger Lily may 

 be quickly propagated by the bulblets, 

 which form in the axils of the leaves. 



L. WASHINGTONIANUM. A lovely Cali- 

 fornian Lily, 2 to 5 feet high, bearing a 

 cluster of large, white, purple-spotted 

 flowers that become tinged with purple 

 after expansion. Nearly allied to this, 

 and by some considered a variety, is 

 L. rubescens, which has smaller flowers, 

 which are of a pale lilac or nearly white. 

 These flowers are erect not horizontal, 

 as in the Washington Lily. Neither L. 

 Washingtonianum nor L. rubescens is easy 

 to grow owing, probably, to their being 

 but little understood at present. The best 

 results have been obtained in partially- 

 shaded situations, in loose, peaty, wen- 

 drained, but moist soil. 



L. WILLMOTTIA. A new, choice, and 

 distinct species of much promise from 

 W. China. The plant is 3 to 4 feet high, 

 the stem crowded with narrow linear 

 leaves and surmounted by a dozen to 

 fifteen large Turk's-cap-like flowers of a 

 glistening red colour, and which depend 

 gracefully on thin, wiry, 6-inches-long foot- 

 stalks. It is one of the most floriferous 

 of Lilies for July and early August. It is 

 a stem-rooting kind, and should therefore 

 be planted deep not less than 6 inches. 

 It does best in cool places in deep loam 

 and leaf-soil, or in positions where the 

 ground is screened from the hottest sun 

 by dwarf shrubs, Azalea mollis, Kalmia, 

 Andromeda floribunda, or Rhododendron 

 racemosum. 



LIMNANTHEMUM (Fringed Buck- 

 bean}. L. nymphceoides is a pretty 

 native water plant, growing in ponds 

 or slow streams, with floating leaves, 

 and bright yellow flowers i inch or 

 more across. One of the prettiest of 

 floating water plants, flowering for 

 months in the summer and autumn. 

 Wild in the southern and eastern 

 counties, and naturalised in other 

 districts. Division as soon as gathered. 

 Syn. Villarsia. Gentian order. 



LIMNANTHES. A vigorous though 

 dwarf hardy annual, valuable because 

 so early ; L. Douglasi has yellow and 

 white flowers, and there is a pure 

 white variety. Few annuals are 

 hardier, severe winters not injuring it, 

 and it requires neither a deep nor a 

 rich soil, but thrives where the earth 

 is poor as well as in ordinary garden 

 soil. It often sows itself on light 

 soils, and gives no further trouble ; 

 but if wanted for a special purpose 

 in spring, the seed should be sown 

 in autumn in boxes or in the open 

 ground ; for summer-flowering, sow 

 in the spring. Plains of California 

 and foothills of the Sierra Nevada. 



