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years have enough bulbs to start a nursery of tiger 

 lilies. 



I dig and move my auratums every fall. Perhaps 

 it's because I'm a nervous gardener, but I think it's 

 really l^cause I once heard that auratums had a 

 habit of disappearing in the ground and I'm always 

 consumed with curiosity to see if mine have done it. 

 Thereby I discovered they have children (little girls 

 all named Lily, I suppose), along their stems under 

 ground. These children I snatch as ruthlessly from 

 their mothers as if they were chickens, placing them 

 in the incubator ground about three inches deep. In 

 two years they grow up, so in addition to the old 

 mothers I have all the juvenile bulbs I want. It is 

 most important never to permit manure to come in 

 contact with the lily bulbs, so always place sand 

 above and below them in planting. 



Our lilies which are fall planted do better and 

 bloom more freely than the spring planted ones. We 

 place a winter mulching of rather fresh manure on 

 the ground which is left undisturbed until after the 

 noses are well above ground in the spring, when it is 

 worked in only a few inches deep between the stems. 

 The winter freezing robs the manure of its burning 

 qusdity. 



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