i8a The Flower Garden [Chapter 



frosted white, heavily bearded and spotted with rich 

 crimson, with many glistening points of white. Aside 

 from the speciosum Lilies there are many other fine 

 Japanese Lilies, the auratums easily leading in size 

 and beauty. While Krameri is a tube-shaped Lily of 

 a soft pink; longiflorum has lovely trumpets of pure 

 white; the wonderful Lilium giganteum, six to ten 

 feet high, sends up immense clusters of twelve to 

 twenty creamy white flowers, with purple throat. 

 Washingtonianum is another tall variety bearing 

 large clusters of delicate white flowers spotted with 

 black, and the grand and rare Brownii shows a choco- 

 late-purple outside with a creamy interior. The list 

 is long, but with a generous planting of well-selected 

 varieties a succession of bloom may be had from the 

 first blooming longiflorums and candidums in June 

 until auratum and the late speciosums cast their ivory 

 petals in September. 



The general treatment of all is the same: deep 

 planting, keeping the manure from actual contact with 

 the bulbs by packing in sand; well-drained soil and 

 the presence of fibrous-rooted or perennial plants near 

 enough to absorb the surplus water from the soil. 

 During the hot weather, give a heavy mulch of lawn 

 clippings brought well up around the stems, and wa- 

 ter as needed. If planted deep they will hardly re- 

 quire staking, as the stalks send out surface roots 

 which not only afford nourishment, but also act as a 

 brace to the plant and hold it firmly in its place. 



