64 LILIES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



shrubby cover ; but for the early growing Lilies it is 

 important that they should be given some shelter 

 from frost. A mulch of short manure, of half-decayed 

 leaves, or of cocoa-fibre is good as a ground pro- 

 tection ; but something is wanted beyond this, for it 

 often happens, when the ground covering only has 

 been provided, that the Lily growth pushes through 

 it while we have yet to fear the late frosts of April 

 and May. Fir boughs, either Scotch or Spruce, are 

 capital for this sheltering, and one of our best Lily 

 amateurs, writing from Kent, says that he has found 

 the branches of Berberis Aquifolimn give complete 

 success. Even bare boughs, such as old pea sticks, 

 will, as gardeners say, " break the frost," and are much 

 better than nothing. The same helpful amateur has 

 sent these dates as those at which the growth of the 

 following Lilies may be expected : — 



Name of Lily. 

 Lilium longiflorum Takesima 

 L. aiiratu77i platyphyllutn . 

 L. speciosum cruentwn 

 L. Henryi ? 

 L. Hansoniy 

 L. speciosum album Krcetzeri 



Brownii . 

 excelsum . 

 Parryi \ 

 Biirbanki > 



L. szovitsianum \ 





rubellutn 



canadense 



Batetnannicz (planted this spring) 



Date of 

 Appearance. 



March 8th. 



„ nth. 



„ 17th. 



„ 19th. 



» 25th. 



April 1 2th. 



» 13th. 



„ 20th. 



„ 28th. 



May 4th. 

 „ 14th. 



