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Gardening for Amateurs 



The brilliantly-coloured Panther Lily (Lilium pardalinum), 

 orange red with dark purple spots. 



shape, and white tinged on the outside 

 with green and inside with purple. The 

 bulbs of this Lily should be planted when 

 small, and allowed to remain undisturbed 

 till they flower, which will take three or four 

 years. If large bulbs are planted they 

 flower in an unsatisfactory manner and then 

 die. The bulb, however grown, flowers but 

 once, although some offsets serve to pre- 

 serve the stock. To induce this Lily to 

 give of its best a hole should be made in 

 a spot protected by evergreen shrubs, yet 

 not deprived of light. This should be filled 

 with a mixture of loam, leaf mould, peat, and 

 sand, and a young healthy bulb planted 

 therein. One has a long time to wait for the 

 flowers, but it is such a wonderful Lily as 

 to repay for the trouble taken. 



Lilium Hansoni (Han- 

 son's Lily). This, which has 

 been described in the notes 

 on " Good Garden Lilies," is 

 equally at home among shrubs. 

 Lilium Henryi (Henry's 

 Lily). A comparatively new 

 Lily from Western China, which 

 has already made itself quite 

 at home in this country. The 

 flowers somewhat resemble 

 those of L. speciosum, and are 

 about the same size. They are 

 of deep orange colour. The 

 leaves are of an unusually dark 

 green. The flowers of L. Henryi 

 are particularly liable to bleach 

 under the influence of hot sun- 

 shine. For this reason, and also 

 for the fact that the flower 

 stem is weak, it is best asso- 

 ciated with shrubs of fair 

 height. 



Lilium longiflorum (Trum- 

 pet Lily). Although this Lily 

 is recommended for other pur- 

 poses there is none better for 

 associating with shrubs ; in- 

 deed, it is impossible to put 

 this out of place in the garden. 

 Lilium pardalinum (Pan- 

 ther Lily). Just the Lily to 

 plant among Rhododendrons 

 of 5 feet or so in height, as then 

 the protecting shrubs are well 

 overtopped by the erect spikes, which are 

 terminated by large pyramidical-shaped 

 panicles of flowers. The blossoms them- 

 selves are regularly recurved, the colour 

 being orange spotted with dark purple, 

 with scarlet tips to the petals. This Lily 

 is the most robust of the creeping rooted 

 kinds. 



Lilium speciosum. Like L. longiflorum, 

 this is a Lily for everyone and everywhere, 

 being as desirable among shrubs as in other 

 parts of the garden. 



Lilium superbum. A North American 

 Lily that bears a general resemblance to 

 L. pardalinum. It is, however, later in 

 flowering, and the segments of the bloom 

 are narrower than those of the Panther Lily. 

 A fairly moist soil containing a good pro- 



