106 GARDENING DIFFICULTIES SOLVED 



Lilies Diseased 



Q. Will you please tell me the probable cause of enclosed Liliums 

 dying off? Both blooms and leaves are falling. I cannot account 



for it, unless it is 

 because I have 

 given them on two 

 occasions weak 

 manure water 

 (sheep's). I have 

 nearly a dozen va- 

 rieties of Liliums, 

 in my garden. 1 

 should like to 

 give the ground a 

 good digging this 

 autumn or winter. 

 Shall I leave the 

 bulbs in and not 

 disturb them or 

 take them out and 

 put in again, as I 

 have done each 

 previous year 1 



HOW A LILY BULB IS POTTED. F. B., Bow, 



A. Your Lilies 



are affected with one of the diseases that of late years have at- 

 tacked these lovely subjects. There is little you can do to stay 

 its progress. Some Lily growers, when their bulbs have been 

 attacked, have taken them up and placed them in bags of sul- 

 phur, allowing this substance to percolate well among the scales. 

 Replanted the next year they have shown no signs of the disease. 

 We should certainly advise you to take up the bulbs and replant 

 again after turning over the ground as you propose. In replanting 

 place a little peat beneath each bulb and surround it with ^ inch of 

 sand. L. aura turn should be planted 8 inches deep, and L. umbella- 

 tum about 5 inches. 



About Lily Bulbs 



Q. I have three Lilies (Lilium auratum) which have just finished 

 flowering two of the pots contained seventeen and thirteen blooms 

 respectively and now I do not know how to treat them. Should 



