Round the Year in the Garden 



and even in winter and spring, but the correct time to 

 plant is late in July or in August. If this is done the 

 bulbs make a loose tuft of leaves before autumn, and are 

 then almost certain to blossom the following summer. If 

 planting is postponed until autumn or winter there is 

 little or no chance of the bulbs flowering the next year. 

 This Lily forms roots from the bulb only, and not from 

 the base of the stem, so deep planting is not necessary. 

 The bulbs are put at such a depth that there is about 

 3 inches of soil above them. The Madonna Lily never 

 looks better, I think, than when planted beneath a pergola 

 that is not densely covered, and especially a pergola that 

 is planted with June-flowering Roses. 



The Orange Lily (Lilium croceum), with large, 

 showy, orange-coloured blooms, ought to be planted this 

 month or next, and the same may be said of the brilliant 

 varieties of Lilium elegans. None of these is stem- 

 rooting, and the bulbs are put at the same depth as already 

 recommended. The Madonna Lily is often the victim of a 

 disease called Botrytis cinerea, which, unless arrested, 

 causes the death of the plant. The leaves first show 

 greyish streaks and subsequently the stems collapse. A 

 wise precaution at planting time is to place the bulbs in a 

 bag of powdered sulphur and shake them, so that the 

 sulphur may get among the scales of the bulbs. If this 

 measure is followed in late spring by spraying with weak 

 Bordeaux mixture the disease is less likely to make an 

 appearance. Fresh bulbs ought on no account to be 

 planted in the same place as that from which diseased 

 ones were removed. 



Planting Early Bulbs. Few amateurs think of plant- 

 ing bulbs in summer, yet this is the correct time to put in 

 those of early flowers such as Snowdrop, Crocus, Winter 

 Aconite, Bulbous Iris, Squill and others. It is true that 

 this task may be deferred until September, or even later, 

 and the results still be passably good, but the sooner the 

 bulbs are planted after late July the finer will be the 



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