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THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



LILIUM. 



bright green leaves and a terminal spike 

 of about a dozen bright, orange-yellow, 

 brown-spotted flowers. It flowers about 

 the beginning of June, is quite hardy, and 

 succeeds in sheltered situations in a soil 

 consisting of two parts of peat, one of 

 loam, and one of road-scrapings. 



L. Humboldti is very graceful. The 



Lilium Humboldti. 



singular beauty of the blossoms and the 

 elegant manner in which they droop from 

 their slender stalks, make it most desir- 

 able, and its flowers, on account of their 

 great substance, are more lasting than 

 any other Californian Lily. The stout 

 and purplish stems attain a height of 4 to 



8 ft. The leaves are in whorls of from 

 ten to twenty each, and are of a bright 

 green. The flowers differ considerably in 

 colour and markings, but are usually 

 bright golden-yellow, richly spotted with 

 crimson-purple. The variety ocellatum or 

 Bloomerianum is dwarf, and has petals 

 tipped with brownish-crimson. It grows 

 best in an open border of 

 rich peaty or leafy soil of a 

 good depth. Columbianum, 

 syn. Nitidum, seems to be a 

 smaller variety of this Lily. 

 L. japonicum, or Krameri 

 as it is more often called, 

 possesses the most delicate 

 beauty of any. The flowers 

 are of the shape and nearly 

 as large as those of L. 

 auratum. They are either 

 pure white or delicate rosy- 

 pink generally the latter. 

 L. japonicum is I to 3 ft. 

 high, and sometimes bears 

 five blooms but generally 

 only one or two. It is some- 

 what difficult to grow, owing 

 to its delicate constitution, 

 but the best specimens pro- 

 duced in this country were 

 grown under the same con- 

 ditions as L. auratum and 

 speciosum. On -account of 

 its beauty it deserves the 

 most careful attention. It 

 is a lovely plant for a se.ect 

 spot between choice dwarf 

 shrubs, in free peaty soil or 

 deep sandy loam with vege- 

 table soil in it. When Mr. 

 Kramer first sent me this 

 Lily he wrote that he ob- 

 tained it from a mountainous 

 slope at a high altitude. 



L. longiflprum ( White 

 Trumpet Lily}. This is 

 among the most beautiful 

 and most valuable of garden 

 Lilies. The typical form is 

 I to 3 ft. high, the stems in 

 summer being terminated 

 by reflexed, tubular, waxy- 

 white flowers, which are 

 sweetly scented. There are 

 several varieties, the best 

 being the early variety now 

 called praecox, of rather dwarf habit, 

 with long, pointed, three-nerved, dark- 

 green foliage ; the flowers are of great 

 substance, tubular, and but little reflexed 

 at the tip, which flowers a fortnight earlier 

 than the type, bears larger and more 

 numerous flowers, and is in every way 



