LILIUM 



LILY OBDEB 



LILIUM 847 



parts of the country. The lower leaves 

 are attacked with this disease in early 

 spring, and unless measures be taken to 

 check it immediately, all hope of obtain- 

 ing flowers may be abandoned. A fre- 

 quent fine syringing with warm or hot 

 soapy water (say 100°-120° F.) will check 

 the disease if not allowed to take too 

 strong a hold upon the plants first. I 

 have seen a plantation of 5000-10,000 

 Madonna Lilies so scourged with this 

 disease that scarcely a hundred plants 

 produced good flowers, and then only 

 about 3-6 on a stem. 



L. carniolicum. — A rare and pretty 

 little species from the mountains of 

 Carniola and Istria. It has small ovoid 

 bulbs with narrow, pointed scales, and 

 stems 2-3 ft. high, furnished with linear 

 lance-shaped leaves, with minutely 

 ciliated edges. The drooping flowers, 

 1^-2 in. deep, appear in June and July, 

 and are of a bright orange-yellow vary- 

 ing to scarlet, and having the segments 

 recurved as in chalcedonicum. 



Culture dc. as above, p. 843. It 

 flourishes in ordinary garden soil en- 

 riched with manure or leaf-mould, and 

 may be increased by offsets. 



L. Catesbaei. — An elegant Lily from 

 N.W. America, producing glaucous, red- 

 dish-tinted stems 1-2 ft. high, with linear 

 or oval lance-shaped pointed leaves. The 

 erect bell-shaped flowers 3-4 in. long are' 

 of a bright orange-red heavily spotted 

 with purple, the segments being slightly 

 recurved at the tips, and suddenly 

 narrowed into a claw at the base, thus 

 leaving an open space between each. 



CuliMre and Propagation. — This 

 species is rather difficult to grow success- 

 fully, and although it comes frora colder 

 regions than many other hardy Lilies it 

 does not seem happy in this country. A 

 moist peaty soil with a little sandy loam 

 seems to suit it best, but it is safer to grow 

 it in well-drained pots, and winter it in 

 cold well-ventilated frames. If grown in 

 the open air it should be well covered with 

 litter to keep the rain off, as moisture at 

 that period is most injurious to the bulbs. 

 Increased by offsets. 



L. chalcedonicum. — A beautiful Turk's 

 Cap Lily, native of S.E. Europe and Asia 

 Minor, producing stems 2-3 ft. high, 

 furnished with scattered Hnear leaves, 

 which become gradually smaller and 

 bract-like as they approach the drooping 



flowers. The latter, which are 2-4 in. 

 deep and across, appear about July and 

 August, 5-8 on the top of a stem, and are 

 of a bright scarlet, having the segments 

 gracefully rolled back towards the pedi- 

 cels, thus exposing the red stamens and 

 anthers. The variety majus has larger 

 flowers than the . type ; grcecum has 

 smaller ones, but longer stems ; Held- 

 reichi flowers a week or two before the 

 type, and maculatum is a pretty spotted 

 form. 



Culture do. as above, p. 843. L. chal- 

 cedonicum and its varieties grow freely 

 in ordinary good garden soil and may be 

 readily increased by offsets. The fully 

 grown bulbs should be planted about 6 in. 

 deep and 9-12 in. apart. The flowers 

 last well in a cut state and are very 

 useful for decorations. 



L. columbianum. — A graceful Lily 

 from Oregon and British Columbia, 

 growing 1^2 ft. high and bearing umbels 

 of drooping reddish-orange or yellow 

 flowers with reflexed segments spotted 

 with reddish-purple. 



Culture dc. as above, p. 843. It 

 reminds one of a small form of L. Hum- 

 boldti, and may be grown in stiffish sandy 

 loam and peat. It is not yet very well 

 known in gardens, although introduced 

 in 1872. Increased by offsets. 



L. concolor (L. siniaum). — A dis- 

 tinct and pretty species, cultivated for 

 many centuries in China and Japan. It 

 has small ovoid pointed bulbs, often five 

 or six in a cluster, from which arise 

 stems 1-8 ft. high, clothed with scattered 

 lance-shaped leaves 3-4 in. long. The 

 erect bright scarlet flowers, about 2 in. 

 long and wide, are borne 3-6 in a corymb 

 in June and July, having a few brownish- 

 purple spots near the base of the seg- 

 ments. The variety huschioMum comes 

 from S. Siberia and has bright scarlet 

 flowers copiously spotted with black near 

 the base; Coridion has bright yellow 

 solitary flowers with reddish-brown spots ; 

 Pa/rtheneion is somewhat similar with 

 bright orange - yellow solitary flowers, 

 faintly spotted ; and pulchellum from 

 Mongolia is a dwarf slender-growing 

 variety, with bright scarlet - crimson 

 flowers spotted black. In a wild state 

 the flowers are solitary upon the stems, 

 but cultivated plants produce sometimes 

 as many as six on a stem. The variety 

 luteum has linear lance-shaped 3-nerved 



