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(Tkunbergianum), a magnificent lily about 2 ft. high, with erect orange- 

 crimson cup-shaped flowers lightly spotted ; very free and hardy, and may 

 be left several years in the same spot. There are several fine varieties 

 all good for cut flower. L. Hansoni, 3-4 ft., with numerous bright orange- 

 yellow flowers, very free. L. Henryi, 3-8 ft., rich orange-red flowers from 

 July to September; L. Humboldti, 4-8 ft., rich orange-yellow flowers, 

 spotted purple, very free; L. Martagon, 3-2 ft., purple red, spotted carmine; 

 L. monadelpkum (Loddigesianum), 3-5 ft., clear pale yellow; the variety 



Szovitsianum (or colcJiicum) 

 is still better, having beauti- 

 ful citron - yellow flowers 

 spotted with blackish purple, 

 sometimes thirty on a single 

 stem ; L. pardalinum, the 

 Leopard Lily, 3-8 ft. high, 

 bright orange red, spotted 

 deep blue, very free; there 

 are several good forms; L. 

 triginum the Tiger Lily, 

 2-4 ft., deep orange red; 

 spotted blackish purple; tes- 

 taceum (or excelsum), 5-6 ft., 

 nankeen yellow or apricot 

 dotted with orange red. 



These Liliums are all easily 

 grown in the open air in good, 

 deeply dug, well- drained, and 

 well - manured garden soil. 

 They should be grown in beds 

 about 4-5 ft. wide, and the 

 tops of the bulbs should be 

 planted about 6 in. below the 

 surface, the distance apart for 

 market work being about 1 ft. 



Bulbs of Narcissi and Daffodils could be planted between the Lilies, and in 

 this way the two crops would not interfere with each other in the least, 

 and one would naturally succeed the other. When the Narcissi have quite 

 died down by the end of June, the surface of the ground could be carefully 

 hoed between the Liliums; and in October or November a light dressing of 

 well-rotted manure would be beneficial to both crops. 



Lily of the Valley (Convallaria majalis). For sixty years or more 

 the Lily of the Valley has been a favourite flower with market growers, 

 but there are millions grown now where there were only hundreds grown 

 half a century ago. Indeed there are now many thousands of acres of land 

 on the Continent and in the British Islands solely devoted to the cultivation 

 of Lily of the Valley " crowns ", and the trade has been encouraged largely 



Fig. 217. Lilium auratum 



