October Looking Forward 



the typical kind. The favourite Liliums auratum and 

 speciosum are not generally obtainable in October, but 

 others available are Henryi, Brownii, testaceum, Krameri 

 and tigrinum. There is really no good reason why one 

 should continue to grow only the White Trumpet Lily 

 because other people grow nothing else. The treatment 

 of Lily bulbs is simple, though one should remember that 

 some are stem-rooting and others are not. Of those 

 mentioned all are stem-rooting except testaceum. 



Provision must be made, therefore, for future top 

 dressing, i.e. an addition of soil, so that the stem roots 

 shall be properly nourished. Six-inch pots are filled 

 about half full with sandy loam and leaf soil, on which 

 the bulbs are placed, one only in each flower-pot. A 

 little more soil is added, sufficient to cover about half 

 the bulb. It is a good plan to scatter a little silver sand 

 on the soil before placing in the bulbs, so that the latter 

 may rest directly on the sand. The pots of bulbs are 

 then placed in a frame or greenhouse from which frost 

 is excluded, very little water being given, enough 

 only to keep the soil slightly moist; there they remain 

 until spring. When nicely rooted, they are repotted 

 into 7- or 8-inch pots. The stem-rooting sorts must be 

 placed low down in the large pots, the space above the 

 bulb will be filled in as the roots appear on the stems. 

 In repotting those that form roots from the base of 

 the bulb only, the pot may be filled at once in the 

 ordinary way, 



Growing Bulbs in Fibre. The moss fibre obtainable 

 from nurserymen and others provides an excellent 

 medium in which to grow bulbs in bowls and vases in 

 the home. Ordinary coco-nut fibre may be used instead, 

 if charcoal and crushed oyster shell are mixed with it. 

 This method of flower cultivation is one that appeals 

 to the fastidious gardener ; the fibre is clean and pleasant 

 to handle, and the vessels used are far more attractive 

 than ordinary flower pots. One may grow all sorts of 



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