AND THEIE CULTUKE. 



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" The accompanying woodcut is taken from a photograph, sent by me, of 



a bulb of Candidum, which was lifted out of the ground one month after it had 



bloomed in the present year, 



1878. A, shows the scar on 



site of the stem of 1877 ; B, 



the old stem of 1878 ; C, the 



remains of the roots of the old 



stem of 1878 ; D D, the new 



bulb, having a large slice cut 



off it to lay open its interior g j 



formation ; B, the roots of the 



new bulb ; these were from 



5 to 7 inches long, with fine, 



fibrous rootlets, but they were 

 unavoidably broken off in the 

 lifting ; F, the radical leaves, 

 peculiar to this Lily, being 

 the precursors of the stem of 

 the new bulb, which was 

 destined to bloom in 1879. 

 These leaves, springing up so 

 early and so close to the re- 

 mains of the old stem, now 

 decaying, give rise to the 

 mistaken idea that this Lily 

 is an evergreen. G H I, are 

 scales of the old bulb which' 

 were left in dissecting in order 

 to show how the new bulb sits 

 in the midst of them until 

 they decay and wither off; 

 K, shows the remains of the 

 scales of the old bulb which 

 were picked off to uncover 

 the new bulb. As to early 

 lifting and replanting, that is 

 to say, early after blooming, 

 I would direct attention to the 

 progress which this Lily has 

 made in only one month from 

 the time when the flowers of 

 the parent bulb had faded. 

 The new roots had penetrated 

 from 5 to 7 inches into the 

 soil, and, as seen in the wood- 

 cut, the radical leaves had 

 grown 24- inches above the 

 apex of the new bulb. Even 

 at this early period the roots 

 were broken in lifting the 

 bulb oat of the ground. 



Old Lily Stem and Roots and New Bulb (L. Candidum). 



