LILIUM. 303 



all have wliite flowers. For general culture, see Epacris, 

 the treatment recommended for which will suit them in all 

 respects, saying that they must not be cut back so hard as 

 the species of that genus. 



L. Australis. — A shrub growing from two to four feet 

 high ; leaves narrow, lanceolate, upwards of an inch long. 

 The flower spikes are produced from the axils of the leaves, 

 and are many-flowered ; the flowers pure white ; it blooms 

 during winter and early spring. Native of South AustraUa 

 and Tasmania. 



L. lanceolatus. — A handsome shrub, attaining the height 

 of ten or twelve feet in its native country ; it, however, 

 flowers very freely while small. The leaves are lanceolate, 

 flat, and dark green ; flower spikes axillary, the flowers 

 white, opening in winter and early spring, and continu- 

 ing until summer. Found on the mountains of New South 

 Wales. 



L. Eichei. — This species forms a shrub some three or four 

 feet high, furnished with oblong-lanceolate, smooth, shining 

 leaves, about an inch long, and having margins slightly 

 turned back. The flower spikes are axillary, the flowers 

 pure white, produced in great abundance during the whole 

 of winter and spring. Native of New South Wales and 

 Tasmania. 



LiLIUM. 



The beauties of this lovely genus of plants cannot be 

 adequately described. It contains a vast quantity of species, 

 some requiring greenhouse culture, and others quite hardy, 

 and indeed it may be questioned whether or no many of 

 the kinds which are usually grown in-doors might not be 

 as successfully cultivated if treated as hardy. The usual 

 method of drying off the bulbs of this class of plants is quite 



