34 BULBS AND THEIR CULTIVATION. 



The Subsequent Culture of Lilies is confined to 

 giving the beds an annual top-dressing of decayed manure 

 in early spring. This precaution is especially necessary in 

 the case of stem -rooting kinds like auratum, Alexandras, 

 Batemannise, Brownii, croceum, Dalhansoni, elegans, 

 Hansoni, Henryi, Krameri, longiflorum, speciosum, and 

 tigrinum, as the stem roots are greatly benefited by the 

 manure. In dry weather, moreover, plenty of water is 

 required, as lilies love moisture. An occasional dose of 

 weak liquid manure will be helpful to bulbs that are 

 flowering freely. So long as lilies are doing well do not 

 interfere with them. When kinds like candidum fail to 

 flower, lift the bulbs at the end of July, and replant in a 

 fresh site ; then they may flower in a year or so. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



TUBEROUS-ROOTED PLANTS. 



THE following genera require more or less special treatment 

 than has been advised for bulbs generally, and, although 

 we have, in the tabulated list published elsewhere, 

 described the soil, position, time of planting, etc., for 

 each, there yet remain a few important details which it 

 is essential the reader should know. We will, therefore, 

 give a few additional facts in this chapter. 



Abobra. This is a half-hardy Brazilian climber 

 requiring to be grown in a warm border at the foot of a 

 south wall, a trellis being provided for the support of the 

 shoots. The tubers have to be lifted in October and stored 



