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until large enough, for permanent placing. If 

 seed is sown broadcast in a suitable spot, no 

 transplanting is necessary. 



Scales should be healthy ones from the out- 

 side of the bulb, which is not injured by the 

 careful removal of a few. They may be taken 

 from the bulbs as soon as ripe (L. candidum in- 

 August), or in early spring, and planted in the 

 open ground, but it is better to put them in 

 pans of loose soil kept fairly moist. They form 

 bulblets the first season. 



Three kinds of lily offsets are produced — 

 from the bulb, from the lower part of the stalk 

 and from the axils of the leaves; the last are 

 known as bulbils. All these are simply planted 

 in the open ground, or in pans in the case of 

 L. sulphurewm, and allowed to grow to flower- 

 ing size. 



Most lilies can be propagated all three ways. 

 Their weak response is to attempts at hybridiza- 

 tion. The genus is very unusual in the stub- 

 bornness with which it resists being influenced 

 by foreign pollen. Seedlings of any species, if 

 crossed, are very apt to resemble the one that 

 bears them. The result is that there are com- 

 paratively few lilies that are not species or va- 

 riants of species. The natural hybrid L, testa- 



