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generally known. It is associated with Yorkshire only 

 by the accident of a Dutch barque having been wrecked 

 off Scarborough some years ago. The bulbs were washed 

 ashore from the ship, and were grown freely in the 

 neighbourhood. This is said to be the Guernsey Lily 

 (Nerine}. 



It is a bright, showy plant, and blooms freely during 

 the summer and autumn, equally well in a greenhouse as 

 in a cottager's window. When potted it need not be 

 shifted more than once in four years. As it is evergreen, 

 it ought not to be dried off too much in its resting season. 

 It needs scarcely any heat, but, while growing, a good 

 deal of water. It is quite worth the trouble of bedding 

 out in a cosy corner of the rock garden in May, 

 taking up and housing the bulbs before the first hard 

 frost. 



L. candidum (the White Madonna), one of the 

 loveliest of all the tribe, used to be seen at its best in 

 cottage gardens, where the bulbs were left very much 

 to themselves, and got no attention whatever. It flourishes 

 in rich, heavy soil exposed to full sunshine. When the 

 plants begin to die down in summer, the bulbs may be 

 dug up with a fork, the off-sets removed, ground dug and 

 manured with a mixture of lime-rubbish, and the larger 

 bulbs replanted. Liquid manure in the following June 

 helps the bloom. 



L. longiflorum (White Trumpet) is amongst the most 

 valuable of these plants. There are several varieties. 

 Longiflorum giganteum comes from Japan. Strong bulbs 



