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After being thus planted out, few of the sorts 

 require any particular culture, as they are capa- 

 bleof enduring all weather at every season. It is 

 however necessary to destroy ail weeds ; and, as 

 some of them run up with pretty tall slender 

 stalks, to support them with sticks to preserve 

 effectually their upright position, by which 

 their flowers will appear to the best advantage. 



Some of the more tender sorts, as the second, 

 fourth, eii^hth, and tenth species, should, how- 

 ever, be protected in severe winters, by applying 

 tanner's bark or some other similar substance 

 over their roots. 



They should all, as has been said, remain un- 

 disturbed two or three years, or longer, as by 

 remaining they flower stronger after the first 

 year; and having increased by off-sets into large 

 bunches, many stalks will rise from each bunch 

 of roots, so as to exhibit a large cluster of 

 flowers : it is, however, proper to take up the 

 bulbs entirely every three or four years at least, 

 at the decay of the stalk, to separate the in- 

 creased off-sets, both for propagation and to 

 disburtlien the main roots, and give them room 

 to take their proper growth in. 



After being taken up in the autumn, all the 

 sorts should, as just observed, be replanted as 

 soon as possible, especially the White Lily sorts, 

 as tlicy soon begin to emit roots. 



Thev are ail valuable as plants of ornament 

 for the beauty of their flowers, which have a 

 noble appearance : they are of course proper or- 

 naments for the pleasure-ground ; and when the 

 different sorts are properly intermixed, they 

 eflect a most elegant varietv, succeeding each 

 other in blow upwards of three months. When 

 wanted particularly for shady or close places, the 

 connnon White Lily, Orange Lilv, and com- 

 mon Martagons, are the most proper, as they 

 thrive under trees. The Orange Lily also an- 

 swers well in small gardens, in the midst of 

 bu.ldings in towns and cities. Besides plant- 

 ing; the different sorts for tiie beauty of their 

 f.-,\vcrs, manv of the stri|ied-itaved Wliite Lily 

 soits should be placed lowartis the fronts of the 

 mt)>t conspicuous parts for the beauty of their 

 leaves in autunni, winter, and sprnig, which, if 

 disposed alternately \\ith the Common White 

 Ldy, wliose leaves are entirely green, a most 

 sinking varietv will be produced. 



The tall-erowing sorts are onlv proper for 

 large borders and clumps, in mixture with 

 other laree herbaceous plants. 



LILiACE('US PLANTS, such as resemble 

 those of the Lilv kind, in their tlowers having 

 six regidar peials,in the form of a Lily, or three, 

 or even one petal deeply divided into six segments, 

 assuming a lily-flower form ; they have not, 



however, all flowers so large as that of the Lily, 

 sotne being considerably smaller ; and as the 

 connnon Lily has no calyx, so several of the li- 

 liaceous flowers are also destitute of a cup ; and 

 others have cups, which are principally of that 

 sort called a spathc. They may therefore be 

 distinguished into such as have cups and such 

 as have not. 



Those without cups are: all the different sorts 

 of common lily; the tulip, all the kinds ; fri- 

 tillary, and crown imperial ; hyacinch ; star of 

 Bethlehem; bastardstar of Bethlehem; tuberose; 

 asphodel ; squill ; hemerocallis, or day-lily ; an- 

 thericum, or spider-wort ; aloe ; yucca, or Adam's 

 needle ; gloriosa, or superb lily, &c. 



Those with spathes or cups are : the crocus ; 

 galanthus, or common snow-drop; leucojum,or 

 great snow-drop ; daffodil, narcissus, and jon- 

 quil; crinuni, or asphodel lily; colchicum; iris, 

 orflower-de-luce; haemanthus, or blocfd-flower; 

 gladiolus, or sword-lily ; Virginia spider-wort ; 

 amaryllis, including the Guernsey lily, bella- 

 donna lily, and Jacobaea lily, &;c. ; pancratium 

 lily, &c. 



The greater part of these liliaceous plants of 

 both kinds are bulbous-rooted ; some, how- 

 ever, have tuberous and some fibrous roots ; 

 and all of them are perennial in root, but annual 

 in stalk. 



They are all ornamental garden-flowers, and 

 most of them sufficiently hardy to grow in the 

 open ground ; though a few are proper for the 

 green-house and stove. See the different Ge- 

 nera. 



LILY. See Amaryllis, and Lilium. 



LILY-OF-THE- VALLEY, See Conval- 



LARIA. 



LIJME TREE, See Citrus. 



LIME WATER, such as is prepared by 

 slakmg caustic lime in soft water, in the pro- 

 portion of half a peck of the former to thirty- 

 two gallons of the latter, letting them remain 

 some time before they are made use of, stirring 

 them well, two or three times a day, for two or 

 three davs. This liquid, when the lime has 

 subsided, is found highly useful in clearing 

 fruit-trees from the ravages of the Aphis Puce- 

 ron, or \'ine-Fretter. It should be applied 

 once a dav by means of an engine so as to be 

 throw nas much as possible on the under sides of 

 the leaves, and with considerable force, pressing 

 the fore finger upon the end of the pipe, to 

 mtke it spread like small rain, and taking care 

 that everv part of the tree be well watered [t 

 should be done as much as possible in cloudy 

 weather, and when the sun is off the walls. 

 Where the trees have an easterly aspect, they 

 may be watered about half past eleven o'clock 

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