No. 784. 
LILIUM CROCEUM. 
Class. Order. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
We received this fine plant from our 
friend Mr. Busch, of St. Petersburg, who 
who eat its roots. 
small bulbs flower with a single blossom, 
the next year with two or three, increasing 
in number as it gets larger, to as many 
as twenty or thirty, and then growing 
to the height of five feet. It was nam 
eroceum by Professor Petrof. With us it 
rosé to three or four feet, producing its 
flowers in June, varying in number accord- 
ing to the strength of the root from two to 
ten or twelve. It will grow either in a pot 
or in the ground, and is perfectly hardy, in- 
creasing itself by offsets : the soil shot 
be rich Joam. 
