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NOTES ON LILIES 



L. Canadense. A variable plant, long known in cultivation, having 

 been figured and described by Parkinson as long ago as 1629. Mr. 

 Baker describes the bulbs as " emitting runners 5 to 6 inches long; 

 scales thick, obtuse, scarcely inch long." The bulbs are borne an 

 inch or two apart, on a stout rhizome, and are about 1 inch in * 



L. Canadcnse (Canada, United States, California) ; imported bulb ; natural size ; small 

 figures show rhizomatous habit of growth and jointed or entire scaled bulbs ; colour, 

 white, yellow if exposed, rarely suffused with pink. 



diameter. The yellow scales are very variable in shape and size, 

 some being short and rounded, others lengthened and lance-shaped, 



some few of them being jointed. Canadense 



L. Parvum ( = L. Canadense Parvum') ; imported bulb 

 natural size ; colour, ivory white, yellowish if exposed. 



Parviflorum has its 

 bulbs clustered 

 more closely to- 

 gether, something 

 in the way of those 

 of Superbum. 



The pretty little 

 L. Parvum has a 

 very distinct bulb, 

 formed of a rhizome 

 2 or 3 inches in 

 length,covered with 

 clustered, white, 

 jointed scales, as 

 shown in our illus- 

 tration. I have seen 

 a whole importation 

 of such bulbs 



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