20 LILIES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



moist, peaty wood are what it likes best, but, given the 

 necessary condition of shelter (for exposure to cold 

 winds invites disease), and the desirable one of half- 

 shade, it can be grown in well-prepared holes in other 

 soils. These holes may with advantage be four to six 

 feet deep, filled with a mixture of peat and sand, or 

 sandy loam, leaf-mould, and rubbish-heap burnings, 

 with some well-rotted manure. 



Where there is no woodland adjoining the garden, 

 an excellent place to grow these Lilies is in Rhodo- 

 dendron or Azalea beds, or any bed where the soil is 

 cool and peaty, and where the young growths will be 

 protected by something bushy. In exposed gardens 

 they suffer from the May frosts. They must not, 

 of course, be actually smothered by the protecting 

 bushes, but they will still do quite well, and make 

 their way through, when the branches of the adjoin- 

 ing bushes first meet. 



If the root is cool the top will bear much more sun- 

 shine, but the shaded, woody spots are where it looks 

 best. 



This grand Lily well planted and left alone for 

 three years will probably then be at its best ; after 

 this the bulbs will be hkely to have increased so much 

 that it will be well to divide them. 



Field mice are mischievous enemies, eating off the 

 tops of the young shoots when they are a few inches 

 out of the ground. Sometimes one may see naked- 

 topped stems rising a foot or two with the leafy top 

 gone. This damage may generally be attributed to 



