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Lilium pomponicum. Scarlet Pompone Lily. This is a 

 beautiful species, with scarlet reflexed petals, flowering in June 

 and July. It is rather a shy flowerer, and has not nourished 

 so well with us as some other sorts. 



Lilium chalcedonicum. Scarlet Martagon Lily. This is 

 another fine scarlet lily, with reflexed petals, growing three 

 or four feet high, and flowering in July. 



L: pyrenaicum, with reflexed yellow flowers, with scarlet 

 anthers, we have in our collection ; very pretty, but producing 

 only from one to three flowers in each stem. Among other 

 beautiful varieties, or species, are L. catesbcei, a native of the 

 south, with orange-colored flowers, and dwarf in its habits. 

 L. CarolinaKum, from Carolina, somewhat like L. superbum ; 

 L. monadelphum, a species of Martagon, from Caucasus ; L. 

 croceum, pumilum, and many others, which may be obtained 

 from the Dutch florists. Lily bulbs, when transported from 

 Holland, are so much weakened, from being kept so long out of 

 ground, that more than one half of them perish ; and the few 

 that vegetate stand a number of years, frequently, before they 

 get strength to bloom. 



Lilium Japonicum. The Japan Lily. This magnificent 

 species of Lily, and its varieties, have been introduced but a 

 few years, and, until lately, treated as green-house plants. 

 They are found to be as hardy as our common Lilies, and will, 

 therefore, prove a great acquisition to the garden. The variety 

 speciosum has a pink and white frosted ground, finely spotted 

 with deep crimson ; L. lancifolium album is pure white ; 

 each variety with reflexed petals. These Lilies emit an exquis- 

 ite odor. I have seen plants five and six feet high ; they were, 

 however, grown in pots in the green-house. These bulbs have 

 commanded extravagant prices ; consequently are found in but 

 few collections. As the price is now greatly reduced, we hope 

 soon to see them more common. The following account is 

 from an English paper; and, as the directions for their culture 

 will be applicable to us, we insert it, with some omissions : 

 " Few plants of recent introduction are more handsome or 



