80 Ploricultural and Botanical Notices, 



and reminds the traveller of the broom of Europe. The 

 gay color and sweet odor of its flowers render it well worthy 

 of introduction into our collections. {Bot. Mag., Sept.) 



192. Li'lium gioa'nteum Wallich. Gi^gantic Lily. (Lil- 

 iaccB.) Nepal. 



A hardy bulb ; growins ten feet hi»h ; with white and purple flowers ; appearing In aummer ; 

 Increased by utTsets -, grown in rich black mould. Bot. Ma?., 1852, pi. 4673. 



The discovery of this Prince of Lilies is due to Dr. Wallich, 

 who detected it in moist, shady places in Sheopore, in 

 Nepal. " This majestic lily," he writes, " grows sometimes 

 to a size which is quite astonishing, measiu-ing full ten feet 

 from the base of the stem to its apex. The flowers are pro- 

 portionally large and delightfully fragrant, — not unlike those 

 of the common Avhite lily." It does not degenerate in cul- 

 tivation. It flowered in the Comely Bank nursery, Edin- 

 burgh, last July, and attained the height of ten feet in one 

 season ; the flower portion occupying twenty inches. " Such 

 a raceme of flowers, accompanied by leaves measuring ten 

 to twelve inches long, and eight inches broad, must have 

 aff'orded a striking spectacle ; and which has only been wit- 

 nessed at the nursery just mentioned, where the plant was 

 raised from seeds received five or six years ago, but has only 

 now blossomed for the first time in Europe." The flowers 

 are white, pendulous, shaped like the common white lily ; 

 three of the petals having slight purple streaks inside, and 

 the other three, broader, with a deep purple tinge on the out- 

 side, forming a bold and pleasing contrast. 



There is no doubt it will prove as hardy in our climate as 

 the Japan lily. Major Madden found it common in damp, 

 thick forests of the Himalaya, and the Provinces of Kamoon, 

 Gurwhal, 6cc. It grows in rich black mould, the bulbs close 

 to the surface, at from 7500 to 9000 feet above the level of 

 the sea, where it is covered with snow from November to 

 April. The hollow stems are commonly from six to nine 

 feet high, and are used for musical pipes. 



It will be a magnificent addition to our hardy garden 

 bulbs ; and its gigantic head of silver and purple flowers, so 



