DESCRIPTIVE AND CULTURAL NOTES 35 



pallidifolium or puberulum has paler green leaves and 

 lighter coloured and rather smaller flowers than the 

 type. 



Roez/i differs by having the leaves being more scattered 

 on the stem, and but rarely borne in whorls. The 

 flowers are bright yellow dotted in the centre with 

 purplish brown. They are borne in a pyramidal-shaped 

 cluster. It grows about five feet high. 



Robinsoni is the strongest grower of all the varieties, 

 and very deep in colour. 



Warel has apricot yellow petals with spots or markings, 

 and is very distinct and beautiful, but, like luteum, it is 

 not common. 



The Panther Lily is essentially an open-border Lily 

 as it does not thrive to perfection in pots, the reason 

 being that the bulbs are stoloniferous or creeping, and 

 form large spreading masses at the period when the bulbs 

 are the strongest. 



Its place in the garden is a moist bed, such as suits 

 rhododendrons and other peat-soil shrubs, and if planted 

 along these the tender shoots of the Lilies are protected 

 from the cold winds in the early stages of growth. But 

 it resents being too crowded by the shrubs as the 

 growths must have ample light and air about them. It 

 is not particular as to position, whether in full sun or 

 partially shaded, but it is always best to plant it where 

 it will not when in tall growth be injured by high winds. 

 It always appears more beautiful when flowering against 

 a background of shrubs. 



It does not like to be disturbed when once well 

 established, but it is easily transplanted if care is taken 

 not to break the masses of bulbs. 



It will generally flower the second season after plant- 

 ing bulbs of flowering size, but it gathers strength year 

 after year, and need never be disturbed, as it rarely 

 deteriorates in places and soils suited to it. 



