LILIUM 



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LILIUM 



with pure white tubular sweetly 

 scented flowers (Sot. Reg. t. 560). 



This fine species is cultivated by 

 hundreds of thousands in a forced, 

 retarded, and natural state by 

 market growers, and is always 

 popular. There are several forms of 

 it, some much better than others. 

 Some of the best are Ilarrisi, eximium 

 or Wilsoni, Takesima grandiflorwm. 



L. Low!. A native of Burma, 

 2 to 4 ft. high, with white bell-shaped 

 flowers more or less heavily spotted 

 with violet or crimson-purple (Bot. 

 Mag. t. 7232 ; Garden, 1894, 953). 



Dr A. Henry says this species is 

 also very common on the bare grassy 

 mountains near Mengtse, China, at 

 elevations of 5000 to 7000 ft., and has 

 pink or purple-pink flowers. 



This is too tender for most parts of 

 the Kingdom, and is best grown in 

 pots in the greenhouse. 



L. Marhan. A hybrid between the 

 white L. Martagon album and the 

 golden-yellow L. Hansoni. It has 

 stems 5 to 7 ft. high, and thick 

 petalled orange-yellow flowers streaked 

 with brownish-red. 



L. maritimum. A native of Cali- 

 fornia, seldom growing more than 

 three miles from the ocean. It has 

 rhizomatous bulbs and stems 3 to 5 

 ft. high, wiih deep red bell-shaped 

 flowers spotted with dark purple. 

 It flourishes in a well-drained, cool, 

 moist soil. (Elwes, Lil. t. 12.) 



L. Martagon. The well-known 

 Turk's Cap Lily of South Europe. 

 It grows 2 to 3 ft. high, and has 

 drooping flowers in chandelier-like 

 tiers, and with gracefully recurved 

 petals of a dull purple-red or violet- 

 rose, heavily spotted with carmine at 

 the base. (Bot. Mag. tt. 893, 1634 ; 

 Red. Lil. t. 146 ; Elwes, Lil. t. 33.) 



There are several varieties, the 

 best known being album, pure waxy 

 white ; dalmaticum, pale to deep 



purple ; and Catani, with very deep 

 velvety crimson flowers. 



L. Maximowiczi. A Japanese 

 Lilium closely related to L. Leicht- 

 lini, but resembling L. tigrinum in 

 its small bulbs and flowers. The 

 latter are drooping, orange-red fading 

 to yellow at the tips, and heavily 

 blotched with deep purple. The 

 variety Bakeri has narrower leaves 

 with ciliated margins, and smaller 

 but more highly coloured flowers. 

 Regeli is similar to Bakeri, but has 

 large blotches on the flowers, and the 

 leaves are not ciliated on the margins. 

 (Elwes, Lil. t. 40.) 



L. mirabile. A fine Lily, native 

 of Western China, growing about 4 

 ft. high, the thin slender stems being 

 furnished with papery, heart-shaped 

 ovate leaves. The funnel-shaped 

 flowers, each 5 to 7 ins. long, are in 

 clusters of seven to fifteen, spreading 



FIG. 237.-Z.iZ 



horizontally, and are white, tinted 

 with violet towards the margin. 



L. monad el phum (L. Loddigesi- 

 anwm). A vigorous Caucasian Lily, 

 3 to 5 ft. high, with drooping, clear 

 pale yellow flowers borne in pyra- 

 midal clusters. The variety Szovitsi- 

 amim (also well-known as colchicum) 

 has beautiful citron-yellow flowers 



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