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to four feet high, with white flowers spotted with red. 

 There are many charming varieties of it, among which 

 album and album Kratzeri may be named as beautiful 

 and cheap white forms, well adapted for pot-culture. 

 Album novum is a lovely variety, but somewhat dear. 

 Other good and cheap varieties are roseum, rubrum, 

 rubrum magnificum, and Melpomene. Although Lilium 

 speciosum and its varieties are not reputedly hardy, and 

 are generally cultivated in pots, they may be grown 

 out of doors in a sheltered place with the auratum 

 treatment. 



Sulphureum (which is the same as Wallichianum 

 superbum) is a fine but expensive Lily, and is not hardy. 

 It grows five to eight feet high, and has pale yellow 

 flowers with a brown exterior. Superbum, orange with 

 red spots, growing six feet high or more, is an American 

 species, and loves a damp, peaty soil. It is quite hardy 

 and very cheap. Sutchuenense, orange with dark spots, 

 growing about two feet high, is somewhat dear, and is of 

 no importance. Tenuifolium, scarlet, a Siberian species, 

 growing about two feet high, is cheap and hardy. We 

 have seen that testaceum is synonymous with excelsum, 

 and Thunbergianum with elegans, under which names 

 they are described. 



The orange black-spotted Tiger Lily (tigrinum\ 

 which grows four to six feet high, is one of the 

 cheapest and most easily grown of Lilies, thriving 

 under the auratum treatment. Several varieties are 

 offered in the catalogues, such as flore pleno (double), 

 Fortunei, and splendens. They cost about the same as the 

 type, except Fortunei, which is rather dearer, but still a 

 cheap plant. Umbellatum, which has red flowers, grows 

 two to three feet high, and thrives under the auratum 

 treatment, is an excellent Lily, and there are several 



