THE LILY DISEASE 69 



attribute it to want of proper drainage and therefore 

 stagnant moisture at the root. The best growers 

 agree in saying that this grand Lily must have good 

 drainage, and most of them advocate a warm ex- 

 posure. We do not know whether it suffers from 

 disease in Italy, where it grows so luxuriantly. 



With regard to " spot " in auratunij the present 

 writer was much struck last year by the fact that 

 among some Lilies among Rhododendrons " spot " 

 appeared among all that were in sun, while those 

 that were shaded escaped. The thought occurred 

 whether it vv'as possible that it was in this case not 

 a disease originating in the plant itself but the 

 direct burning action of the sun intensified by the 

 lens form of drops of wet. There was no question 

 of frost as it was in very hot weather, about the 

 same time when a good many people noticed that 

 leaves of all kinds were burnt and decayed very 

 quickly when a wet dead flower had fallen and rotted 

 on them. 



The existence of disease should make growers all 

 the more careful to do the best they can for their 

 Lilies, for if the plant is in a healthy state we may 

 safely assume that it will not be attacked. 



Many columns have appeared in The Garden on 

 the subject of the disfiguring and mysterious Lily 

 illness ; no certain preventive or remedy has been 

 suggested, but there is strong presumption in favour 

 of the efficacy of spraying with Bordeaux mixture, 

 that great enemy of fungoid attacks ; for the Lily 

 disease is of that nature and is known to science as 



