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gardeners to plant it out late in spring for the summer season, lifting 

 it again in September, and putting it into pots for flowering in 

 winter and spring. In places where there is little or no frost it 

 will often pass the winter safely, especially if it is well established 

 near water, and when a colony of it is established there are few 

 objects in the garden that are more beautiful. There is a miniature 

 form of the Arum Lily called Little Gem that many people like 

 for pot culture, and there is also a yellow named Elliottiana. 



Arum Lilies can be bought from bulb-dealers in autumn, and 

 they may be potted at once into a similar mixture of soil to that 

 recommended for Alliums. Unless they are very large they may 

 go into 5-inch pots, but when they have attained to considerable 

 size they must have y-inch or 8-inch pots, as they are free rooters 

 and need a great deal of water. The transfer is not likely to be 

 called for the first winter. Assuming that the plants are bought 

 in autumn, they may go into the smaller pot for the winter, be 

 planted in rich soil in the garden at the end of May, and be 

 potted up into the larger size at mid-September. They may lose 

 one or two leaves when they are potted, but this need not alarm 

 the grower, as fresh ones will soon form. When he has got large 

 clumps he may divide them, keeping the small offsets which form 

 in little pots until they are strong enough to go into the full size 

 for flowering. 



Arum Lilies should never be allowed to suffer from want 

 of water, whether growing indoors or out. If the soil gets quite 

 dry, and remains so for even a short time, they may suffer severely. 

 The grower should remember that they are semi-aquatics, and 

 then he will not neglect them in this all-important matter. 



We have seen that the Arum Lily is not really an Arum, 

 but a Richardia. The Arums proper are similar in structure, but 

 in no case so beautiful as the chaste and lovely Lily of the Nile. 

 They are hardy plants, mostly with thick, fleshy, spotted stems, 

 and strangely marked flowers. They are uncanny, and in the case 



