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their beauty, whether the pure silvery white flowers of L. s. 

 Kroetzeri are in question or the crimson-spotted blooms of 

 L. s. melpomene, or L. s. magnificum. Lilium Henryi 

 (sometimes called the apricot speciosum lily, although it is 

 a distinct species) is specially suited for growing in the 

 border, where, under good conditions, it will increase in 

 strength yearly. A bulb which has been in the writer's 

 garden for six years is now throwing up a spike of many 

 flowers, 3 inches in circumference at the base yearly, with 

 smaller flowering bulbs around it. L. tigrinum (the tiger 

 lily) is nearly related to L. Henryi, and this is a lily which 

 presents no difficulties of cultivation, increasing mightily in 

 cottage gardens if left alone. L. tigrinum splendens is a 

 decided improvement on the older form, and should be 

 grown in preference to it. These lilies (as well as L. Henryi 

 and some others) are easily propagated by means of the small 

 black bulbils which form at the axils of the leaves, each of 

 which will be found to include a tiny rootlet if removed 

 from the ripening stem in the late summer. These bulbils 

 should be planted 2 inches apart in a well-drained box of 

 light sandy soil, which can stand in a cold frame for the 

 winter and in the open air in summer. When their second 

 spring arrives the young lilies should be planted out in a 

 nursery border 6 inches apart, where they may remain until 

 they attain flowering size, when they can be planted in 

 groups in the border. 



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