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good yellow Hansoni ; and that comparatively new Lily, 

 Henryi. In this soil, also, can be grown the exquisite 

 longirlorum, with its trumpet-shaped blooms, and its 

 varieties giganteum, eximium (Wilsoni of some), foliis 

 albo-marginatus, Takesima, Harrisii, and praecox. The 

 hybrid Marhan thrives in the same soil, as also do the 

 typical Martagon ; the pretty pomponium ; the strongly- 

 scented pyrenaicum ; and the ever popular speciosum 

 (syn. lancifolium), of which there are so many good 

 varieties, such as album Kraetzeri, album novum, 

 Melpomene, roseum superbum, cruentum and punc- 

 tatum. To these may be added the pretty tenuifolium ; 

 the well-known tigrinum, with its forms splendens, 

 Fortunei, and fl. A selection of varieties of L. elegans 

 would include such as Alice Wilson, alutaceum, atro- 

 sanguineum, aurantiacum, Batemani, often called L. 

 Batemanniae, Horsmanni, Flore-pleno, Prince of Orange, 

 Van Houttei, and Wilsoni. There are also a number 

 of varieties of umbellatum. 



The following Lilies require a deep and well-dug 

 friable loam, lightened with sand and leaf-soil if of a 

 clayey nature : 



Alexandra, a fine new Lily ; the splendid auratum 

 with its many forms, of which platyphyllum, rubro- 

 vittatum, virginale and Wittei may be named ; Bolanderi ; 

 Brownii ; callosum ; columbianum, giganteum and the 

 allied cordifolium ; the fine Humboldtii; the rather 

 unsatisfactory japonicum, better known as Krameri ; 

 japonicum Colchesteri; Leichtlinii; Lowii, neilgherrense. 

 Martagon album ; M. dalmaticum ; M. cataniae ; nepa- 

 lense; pulchellum ; the pretty new rubellum ; rubescens ; 

 sulphureum ; monadelphum or szovitzianum a well 

 proved species - - Wallacei, and washingtonianum. 

 Although these all do with the compost named, un- 

 fortunately some are almost impossible to grow in 

 ordinary gardens. 



