LILIUM AURATUM 19 



There are several good forms of Tiger Lily besides 

 the old ordinary one, which is always a capital 

 garden plant. L. Fortunci is a bold plant, and the 

 most woolly of the tomentose kinds. There is a still 

 larger one, known as Fortu7iei giganteuni. The flowers 

 of these are of a paler colour than the type, and the 

 stems are greener. 



Leopoldi is a variety whose stems are dark and 

 smooth. But the finest of all is the one known as 

 splefideris, with the largest flowers of the strongest 

 colour, sometimes growing to a height of seven feet. 



Bulbs of the Tiger Lilies should be planted rather 

 deep, about seven inches, as they have stem-roots. 

 They increase fairly fast, and should be replanted 

 about every three years. They can also be readily 

 increased by the abundant bulbils that most of them 

 produce in the axils of the leaves. These make flower- 

 ing bulbs in from three to four years. 



It likes a lightish loam, or loamy sand, and leaf- 

 mould, and, like all Lilies, is thankful for a manurial 

 mulch. 



LILIUM AURATUM (Japan), Archelirion 

 The Gold-rayed Lily of Japan 



This is one of the noblest, and in certain circum- 

 stances one of the easiest to grow of all Lilies, being 

 grand in cool woodland where it is moist at the root. 

 It is wild in Japan, but when there cultivated for 

 export it is grown on land slightly raised above the 

 flooded rice-fields ana on the foot-hills not far 

 from water. Well-sheltered, half-shaded spots in a 



