6 LILIES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



If good seed is wanted, it is well to insure it by 

 repeated hand-fertilisation. Increase by seed is rather 

 a slow process, as flowering bulbs can hardly be ex- 

 pected till seven years from the time of sowing. 



The plant that has flowered will have offsets of 

 several sizes, the largest of which will probably flower 

 in two years. The bulbs are planted quite shallow, 

 only just underground ; established ones show their 

 tops just above ground. 



In most gardens, though it does not appear to be 

 needed everywhere, care must be taken that the young 

 leaves do not suffer from late frosts. In the neigh- 

 bourhood of London, and for some way to the south 

 of that latitude, the young leafy growths need to be 

 protected by a few Fir boughs, or something that will 

 "break" the frost without so closely covering the 

 Lihes as to draw and weaken them. 



Liliuni cordifolium of Japan may be described as 

 a poor kind of L. giganteum, and is so inferior to this 

 grand thing, that unless it is an object to have a col- 

 lection of as many kinds as may be, it is hardly worth 

 growing. 



