LILIUM 



LILY OBDEB 



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the Lilies is one of the future tasks of the 

 hybridiser. 



L. monadelphum {L. loddigesiatium). 

 A beautiful and vigorous Caucasian Lily 

 ■with rather large bulbs and stout stems 

 3-5 ft. high, clothed with linear lanoe- 

 shaped acute leaves, ciliated on the 

 margins. In early summer 6-20 large 

 drooping flovjrers, pale bright yellow, 

 tinged with red at the base, are borne in 

 pyramidal clusters at the end of the 

 stems. The variety szovitsianum (also 

 known as L. colchicum) is a very fine 

 LUy with beautiful citron- yeUow flowers 

 spotted with blackish - purple, hanging 

 like bells at the top of the stems, and 

 sometimes as many as 30 in number. 



Culture and Propagation. — These 

 Lilies flourish in rich loam and leaf soil, 

 but take two or three years to attain 

 perfection after the bulbs are planted. 

 They are very attractive in thm shrub- 

 beries and borders where they can obtain 

 a little shade for the flowers and shelter 

 for the roots and young growths in spring. 

 In the colder parts of the country the 

 bulbs should be protected with a layer of 

 leaves, litter, bracken &c., as recommended 

 for other kinds. Increase is effected by 

 removing the offsets in early autumn, 

 and planting by themselves. Seeds may 

 also be sown as soon as ripe, and take 

 four or five years to produce flowering 

 bulbs. 



L. nepalense, which comes from 

 Nepaul, may be grovsm in the same way 

 as wallichianurn in mild parts of the 

 country. It grows 1-3 ft. high, and 

 bears nodding beU-shaped flowers of a 

 beautiful soft yellow, the lower half of 

 the gracefully recurved segments being 

 washed and blotched vrith a bright purple- 

 brown. 



Culture dc. as above, p. 848. This 

 species is probably too tender in the open 

 air for our winters except in the mildest 

 parts. By protecting the bulbs, however, 

 with a good layer of leaves, litter &c., it 

 may prove hardy enough in most parts. 



L. pardalinum (Leopard Lily). — An 

 attractive Californian Lily having white 

 swollen horizontal rhizomes furnished 

 with scales, in the axils of which bulbs are 

 developed. The stems grow 3-8 ft. high, 

 and are clothed with narrow lance-shaped 

 taper-pointed leaves arranged 9-15 in 

 more or less distant whorls. The 

 drooping bright orange-red flowers, paler 



in the centre, and heavily spotted with 

 dark purple towards the base, are borne 

 in June and July, in loose clusters at the 

 top of the stems, often 12-30 at a time. 

 There are several varieties of this species, 

 among which may be noted Bourgcei, 

 a late-blooming form with crimson- 

 orange flowers heavily blotched with 

 maroon ; cali/ornicum has slender stems 

 3-4 ft. high, and deep orange-yellow 

 flowers, spotted with maroon and tipped 

 with bright scarlet ; luteum, with beau- 

 tiful soft yellow flowers suffused with 

 orange, and marked only at the base 

 with chocolate-brown; minor, an early- 

 flowering form, with rather small orange 

 flowers spotted with black, and having 

 the tips of the segments sometimes stained 

 with crimson ; Michauxi is very free- 

 flowering and late, but otherwise like the 

 type ; palUdifolium grows about 5 ft. 

 high, and has large flowers, paler in 

 colour than the type, but about twice as 

 large ; Bobinsoni has strong stems 7-8 ft. 

 high, and bright vermilion flowers sha- 

 ding to yellow, and densely spotted with 

 purple-brown. 



Culture and Propagation, — The 

 Leopard spotted Lilies should find a place 

 in every garden where Lilies are loved. 

 They are among the hardiest and most 

 free-flowering and flourish in peaty soil 

 or one composed of light loam, peat and 

 leaf soil. They may be grown with L. 

 canadense in beds of Azaleas, Ehododen- 

 drons &c., where the yoimg growths in 

 spring will be protected from frost. 

 Having rhizomes lie that species, L. 

 pardaUmum may be increased in the 

 same way. When undisturbed for several 

 years beyond an annual top-dressing of 

 manure, the Leopard Lilies soon become 

 as vigorous and free-flowering as in their 

 native haunts, and increase rapidly by 

 their creeping rootstocks. 



L. Parryi. — A beautiful Californian 

 Lily with somewhat rhizomatous bulbs 

 and slender stems 2-6 ft. high, clothed 

 with linear lance-shaped leaves 4-6 in. 

 long, those near the base being arranged 

 in whorls. The citron-yellow nodding or 

 drooping flowers, spotted with pale choco- 

 late or purple - brovrai, are produced in 

 July, and emit a delicate fragrant odour. 



Culture and Propagation. — It isfound 

 in a natural state growing in boggy soil, 

 and it has been found to thrive in 

 cultivation when planted in shady spots 



