LILIUM 



LILY OBDEB 



LILIUM 



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conditions as L. auratum, in a compost 

 of stiffish sandy loam and peat, among 

 Azaleas, Rhododendrons, Kalmias &c. 

 The great point is to have the soil well 

 ■drained and kept dry, and protected from 

 frost in winter by a good layer of leaves, 

 litter &o., and when planting always 

 place plenty of clean sand around and 

 beneath the bulbs. 



L. Krameri (L. japonicum roseum ; 

 L. Belladonna ; L. ElisahethcB). — A 

 beautiful Japanese Lily closely related 

 to L. japonioum, and feom a mere botani- 

 cal point of view probably only a variety 

 ■of it. For flower-garden purposes, how- 

 ever, they are not likely to be confused 

 with each other, any more than with 

 L. Browni, which is also closely related 

 to L. japonicum. Kramer's Lily is a 

 taller and stronger-growing plant than L. 

 japonicum, having purple-spotted stems 

 3-4 ft. high, narrower, more tapering, and 

 much longer leaves, and larger, sweet- 

 scented, beautiful pink flowers, with 

 gracefully spreading segments more or 

 less recurved at the tips. 



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

 meri may be grown in the same way 

 as L. japonicum. 



L. Leichtlini. — This beautiful and 

 graceful Japanese Lily has rather small 

 bulbs and stems 3-4 ft. high, which at 

 first shoot from the soil obliquely, but 

 eventually become erect and clothed with 

 narrow lanoe-shaped leaves, 3-4 in. long, 

 tapering to a sharp point. The beautiful 

 citron-yellow flowers, heavily spotted with 

 purple inside, and suffused vnth purple 

 outside, appear 1-3 on a stem in July 

 and August. They are drooping, like 

 other Tiirk's Cap Lilies, and have the 

 narrow lance-shaped segments rolled 

 backwards to the stalk. 



Culture and Propagation. — This spe- 

 cies may be grown in rich sandy loam, 

 peat and leaf soil, like L. japonicu/m and 

 L. auratum, and owing to its peculiar 

 method of sending the stems out obliquely 

 from the bulbs at first, is better adapted 

 for the open border than for pot culture. 

 Indeed, if grown in pots the young shoots 

 are apt to press too hard against the sides 

 of the pot before appearing above the soil, 

 and are thus likely to become injured. 

 The underground portion of the stem is 

 furnished with scattered scales or modified 

 leaves, in the axils of which bulbils are 

 developed, and from these new plants 



may be obtained. According to their 

 vigour these bulbils may produce flower- 

 ing plants a year or two after being 

 detached from the parent. 



Although not very well known, mention 

 may here be made of a few forms of this 

 species. Majus grows about 5 ft. high, 

 and has yellow flowers spotted with 

 blackish-purple ; Maximowiczi has dark, 

 purple-brown stems, more or less cob- 

 webby or cottony, with 3-4 flowers of 

 a bright orange - scarlet colour ; platy- 

 petalum has pale red flowers with broad 

 segments ; and tigrinum has orange- 

 scarlet flowers heavily spotted with dark 

 purple. L. Batema/nnicB is near some of 

 these forms, especially Maximowiczi. 



L. longiflorum. — A very handsome 

 Japanese LUy with medium-sized, yellow- 

 ish-white bulbs and stems 1-3 ft. high, 

 clothed with bright green, sharp-pointed, 

 lance-shaped leaves. In June and July 

 from one to three or four beautiful pure 

 white sweetly scented flowers are borne 

 on the top of the stems, spreading more 

 or less horizontally, 5-7 in. long, and as 

 much across when fully open, funnel- 

 shaped, tapering gracefully towards the 

 stalk. 



There are several distinct varieties of 

 this white Trumpet Lily, among which the 

 following are the most distinct. Formosa- 

 num, from the island of Formosa, has 

 flowers somewhat smaller than the type, 

 flushed with rosy -brown down the central 

 ribs ; Ha/rrisi, eximium, or Wilsoni are 

 all apparently the same plant, or so close 

 that they are scarcely distinguishable from 

 one another. They have magnificent 

 flowers of a pure glistening white, and 

 are often 8-10 in. long, and 4-6 in. across 

 the mouth. Under the name of Barrisi 

 this variety has been cultivated for many 

 years in the Bermudas, and has hence 

 become well known as the ' Bermuda 

 Lily.' Of late years, however, a devasta- 

 ting fungus disease has attacked the crops 

 and interfered with the exportation of fine 

 bulbs. The Japanese name of Liu-hiu 

 represents forms of longiflorum eximium. 

 The variety Tahesima, known in Japan 

 as Jama-juri, is a plant intermediate 

 between longiflorum and eximium, with 

 a tendency to produce more flowers and 

 at a later period. This variety is distin- 

 guished chiefly by the buds being washed 

 with brownish -purple or violet, but when 

 expanded it is more difficult to identify 



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