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under trees in shrubberies and in the shade, but if roots of other 

 plants rob the ground, and deprive it of moisture,, the Lilies will be 

 stunted, and cause disappointment. Give the larger growing kinds, 

 such as Giganteum, Humboldtii, and the Speciosum tribe, plenty of 

 room to display their beauty. Lilies like warmth and sunshine, but 

 unless there is a cool bottom beneath, they cannot stand hot 

 sunshine ; a border under a south wall would, we fear, prove too dry 

 in many soils for good Lily growth. The common Tigrinum Sinensis, 

 Longiflorum, the Umbellatum tribe, the Pomponium section, with 

 Buibiferum, Croceum, and Candidum, will, however, do well in 

 shrubberies if not too much overhung. 



Plant at least four inches deep in light soils six inches will not be 

 too deep ; give each bulb its own width at least on each side free 

 from its neighbour's share. Do not plant in very wet or frosty 

 weather ; in the first case the ground will set tight round the bulb, of! 

 which some kinds are impatient. In the second case the frost may 

 penetrate the ground more readily when the upper crust is broken, 

 and injure the bulb. In very wet soils plant the bulb on its side, but 

 allow room in that case for the shoots to curve up. When a clump \ 

 of bulbs has been some years planted in the same place, and increased j 

 much, it will be well to break them up separate and plant again single 

 bulbs ; otherwise it is as well to leave the roots undisturbed in the 

 winter, merely marking the spot with a stick, that the ground be not 

 dug. 



There is another way in which many tender delicate Lilies may be 

 grown to perfection ; erect a frame with lights sloping towards the 

 north, fill in with eighteen inches of prepared soil, one-third meadow 

 loam, one-third peat, and one-third leaf mould well mixed together, and 

 sharpened by sand (sea sand if possible), into such a compost that at 

 any time the hand may be plunged readily deep down and bring up a 

 bulb for examination without breaking the tender roots. In this 

 plant such bulbs as Pulchellum, Tenui folium*, Brownii, Japonicum, Col- 

 chesterii, Krameri, Coridion, Thunb&rgianum, Kamskatchense, Leiclitlinii, 

 &c. (for the last add more loam). As the stems grow, liffc up the 

 frames by means of bricks placed on each side of the plate, air will be 

 then admitted, and the effects of frost neutralised. In May after all 

 danger from frost is over the frames may be entirely removed ; the 

 bulbs flower earlier and are better ripened for the next year, while 

 the heavy cold autumnal rains that do so much damage to unripened 

 bulbs may be averted by replacing the frames.* 



It may interest our readers to hear that in 1872 we bloomed our 

 first Lily, Thunbergianum Marmoratum, var., Aureo-pictum, out-of- 

 doors in a warm corner, on May 24th; on 26th, Thunbergianum 



* CalocJiorti, Cyclobothras, Freesias, Nemastylis, Erythronium, Tigridias, Sparaxis, 

 and other Cape bulbs will thrive exceedingly well in such company, and well repay the 

 slight cost of erection. 



