LILIUM 



(The classic Latin name, from the Greek Uirion, a lily) 

 Liliacea 



40. Lilium auratum 

 English Name: Gold-banded lily. 



JAPAN JULY AND AUGUST 



IARGE, showy, fragrant flowers spreading nearly a foot wide, cream 

 -J colored, thickly mottled with purple and with a golden band down 

 the centre of each petal; borne in heads of two to five on leafy stems two to 

 four feet high. Leaves 

 slender and inconspicu- 

 ous. Very effective scat- 

 tered or in masses in the 

 herbaceous border, or 

 scattered among shrub- 

 bery. Too large a mass 

 should not be used in the 

 border, as the foHage dies 

 down after blooming and 

 may leave a bare spot. 

 Good for cutting. 



A hardy perennial, but 

 of short hfe, the bulb 

 usually dying in two or 

 three years. A well- 

 drained soil is essential, 

 and manure should never 

 be allowed to come in 

 direct contact with the 

 bulb. Lily bulbs should 

 be deeply planted, with 

 the top of the bulb about 

 six inches below the 

 ground, as they are then 

 more resistant to drought, 

 hot weather, and frost. In 

 planting excavate to twice the depth of the bulb planting, fill in first with 

 well-composted manure, then with about an inch of sand, or perhaps 

 better two or three inches of fresh sphagnum moss, then place the bulb} 



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