CHAPTER XI 



LILIES 



XILIES, too, should have a book for them- 

 selves. My knov^ledge of them is slight. 

 LUium auratum (Auratum Lily), the grand- 

 est of all Lilies, disappears after a few years. 

 If large-sized bulbs are bought there will 

 be the first year from twenty to thirty Lilies 

 on a stalk four feet high, the second year 

 seven to ten, the third year perhaps two 

 or three, but oftener none at all. If you 

 then dig for the bulb, lo! it is gone. The 

 expense, therefore, of these Lilies is great, 

 from their having to be often renewed. 

 Still, do not fail to have them, if possible, 

 for nothing can take their place. They bloom 

 from the middle of July for about a month. 

 I wrote to an authority on Lilies to ask 

 the cause of this disappearance. He told 



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