ESCRIPTION must fail to convey an idea 

 of the stately grandeur, the queenly purity, 

 and graceful habit, of this beautiful flower. 

 The lily is pre-eminently a garden-bulb ; there being very 

 few, which, with some slight protection, will not bear a New- 

 England winter, and many are among the hardiest garden- 

 flowers. 



All lilies have scaly bulbs, and are propagated by offsets, 

 by seed, by stem-bulbs in some cases, and by separating the 

 scales of the bulb and planting each scale in silver-sand, 

 where it will soon make a small bulb. All the above 

 methods, except by seed, are for the perpetuating old estab- 



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