30 NOTES ON LILIES 



will suffice very well. It is to this shading of the soil that I attribute 

 chiefly my success in growing every genus of Lilies, which, in this country, 

 is thought to be quite remarkable. I lose few important bulbs, and from 

 my beds no larger proportion drop out, than do in dry summers of 

 'Canadense in its native haunts. 



"It is too soon to speak of the results of my hybridisation among 

 Lilies. This one fact I will communicate however, for several years I 

 have bloomed seedlings of Canadense, produced only, I am sure, by pollen 

 of various other species, but always unaltered from the type. Such has 

 been the experience of Mr. Parkman, and Mr. Hanson has given up this 

 .species as incorrigible." (From an old and valued Correspondent in North 

 America). 



LILIUM SUPERBUM AT HOME. 



" The most gorgeous of all our meadow flowers is the Turk's-cap Lily 

 (L. Superbum). It generally grows in wet places , often in or near a 

 ditch, and attains a great height, I have seen it in a neighbour's garden 

 on dry ground scarcely less luxuriant 5 feet high, with a great number 

 of gorgeous reflexed flowers on every plant. The blossoms continue a 

 long time in the garden, but in the meadows usually meet an untimely 

 end at the hands of the mower, who seldom cares enough for botany or 

 beauty to preserve or transplant them." Albany Cultivator, Garden, 

 vol. 8, p. 55. 



LILIUM SUPERBUM IN OHIO. 



" In moist localities, through the woods here just now, this fine Lily is 

 in perfection, its flower spikes rising up to a height of 6 feet or more, 

 producing 12 or 15 flowers on a single spike. The buds, before they 

 open, are very pretty, being bright orange scarlet, the inside spotted with 

 dark purple. Lifted in autumn, and planted in a well enriched flower bed, 

 they do remarkably well, and form a very attractive addition to the flower 

 garden. A bed in the flower garden here, just now planted with it, is the 

 prettiest one we have." M. Milton, Cleveland, Ohio, in Country Gentleman. 



"For more than thirty years I have grown all the principal sorts of Lilies 

 that could be obtained in European collections, and without mentioning 

 the regular autumn trade sorts, have had all that were really hardy in our 

 climate ; but my real pets have been the Japan sorts of the Speciosum type, 

 introduced by Dr. Siebold. These have been erroneously known under 

 the name of Lancifolium, and its different varieties, as Rubrum, Album, 

 Roseum, and Punctatum. The first was crimson spotted, the second fine 

 white, the third rose spotted, and the last blush or pink spotted. I have 

 ever been curious to know in what manner the Punctatum originated, as 

 it has a habit which none of the others have. It always comes up in the 

 bed several days before the others, keeps ahead, and flowers fully a fortnight 

 sooner than they do. So much in advance, indeed, is it, that I have had 



