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cultivation, is not as hardy as L. lancifolium, and more 

 liable to disease. Bulbs left out in the open ground during 

 the winter will come up and do well at first ; but, after the 

 flower-buds are formed, they are very apt to die out, the 

 leaves turning yellow, and the whole plant rapidly failing. 

 This is not uncommon, even when they are kept in pots 

 and sheltered from severe frosts. The plant requires the 

 house treatment of L. lancifolium, but may be bedded out 



in the border in summer. The flower is very large, white, 



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with deep yellow bands down the petals. There seem to be 

 varieties, differing in the intensity of the bands : the stalks 

 are many-flowered. The accounts of its size, beauty, and 

 fragrance, are not exaggerated. The credit of introducing 

 this splendid lily belongs to New England. It was 

 brought from Japan in 1860 by F. Gordon Dexter, Esq., 

 who placed it in the hands of Francis Lee, Esq., by whom 

 it was bloomed in the summer of 1861. In the spring of 

 1862, Mr. Lee transferred it to Francis Parkrnan, Esq., a 

 zealous amateur, who exhibited it at the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Exhibition on the 8th of July of the same 

 year, and described it in " The Gardener's Monthly." It 

 was bloomed in England this same year (1862) for the first 

 time. 



