DESCRIPTIVE AND CULTURAL NOTES 13 



L. avenaceum. A pretty small growing Lily, a native 

 of Japan, Manchuria, and Kamtchatka, but owing to its 

 delicate constitution is rare in cultivation. The red, 

 drooping flowers with their reflexed tips remind one 

 of L. tenuifolium, but the bulbs are very different, those 

 of L. avenaceum consisting of small oat-like scales, while 

 in L. tenuifolium, though the bulbs are small the bulb 

 scales are fewer in number, and comparatively large. It 

 can only be recommended to the Lily specialist, not for 

 general cultivation. 



L. Bro'wmi is one of the finest and most satisfactory 

 Lilies. What is regarded as the type of this Lily or 

 rather that which has been cultivated by the Dutch for 

 the last fifty years or more is of obscure origin. It 

 reaches a height of two to three feet ; the flower stem 

 is tinged with reddish brown and is bare of leaves for 

 some distance from the base. The leaves are long, 

 narrow, gracefully recurved, and of a deep green 

 tint. 



The flowers, usually solitary, are long, trumpet-shaped, 

 and of a thick waxy texture ; inside they are ivory 

 white, but are so heavily suffused with chocolate on 

 the exterior that the unopened buds are almost entirely 

 of that tint, particularly when grown in an exposed spot. 

 It is a good lily for planting under conditions similar to 

 L. auratum, and also for pot culture. The Lily known 

 as L. Broiunu odorum, L. odorum and L. Colchesterense 

 differs from the type in the leaves, being shorter, broader, 

 much thinner in texture, and of a pale green, while the 

 flowers are not so long. The exterior of the bloom too 

 is not so heavily tinged as in typical L. Broivnn, and 

 when first expanded the inner faces of the petals are 

 of a creamy tint, becoming white later. The Lily is 

 at Kew named L.japomcum Colchesterense. 



L. Broivnii leucanthum reaches a height of four feet, 



