130 The Lily. 



Bix-petalled, bell-shaped, with a longitudinal nectareous line ; 

 capsules, the valves of which are connected by cancellated hair. 

 Candidum comes from the Latin, candido, to bleach or make 

 white. According to Nuttall, the United States affords five or 

 six of these species, which generally affect low and rich meadows, ♦ 

 or fertile shady woods and thickets. 



Lilium Bulbiferum — Orange Lily. This flower, although 

 less elegant in its shape, and entirely destitute of fragrance, is a 

 great ornament to the garden, both on account of its stately 

 height, ^occasioning the name of Superb, and its orange colored 

 petals. We have many varieties of this species of Lily, some 

 of which are of so great antiquity as to be thought natives of the 

 British soil, from which they were introduced. It is found wild 

 in Austria, Italy, and other southern parts of Europe ; also in 

 Siberia and Japan. The orange Lily has been known to pro- 

 duce double flowers, but this variety is not permanent. Some 

 years back a bulb produced double flowers in a garden near 

 Ghent, but in the succeeding year it returned to its natural shape, 

 and then again blossomed with double corollas, after which it 

 was entirely lost. The trivial name of Bulbiferum is given to this 

 Lily from a singular gift of nature which some of the varieties 

 of this flower possess, that is, of having three distinct modes of 

 propagating its species ; first, by its oviparous power of produc- 

 ing seeds or vegetable eggs ; secondly, by its viviparous nature 

 in throwing off young bulbs, or perfect bodies, from the side of 

 the parent bulb ; and thirdly, by a bulbous bud which is formed in 

 the angle between each leaf and the stem, and which at maturity 

 drops off, and taking root in the earth, swells out into the scaly 

 bud peculiar to Lilies only. This kind will prosper in situa- 

 tions that are partially shaded, which makes it particularly de- 

 sirable for planting among flowering shrubs, so as to fill up the 

 vacancies occasioned by the fall of the lilac and laburnum. It 

 is not delicate as to soil, but it flowers strongest in a soft, gentle 

 loam, not too moist The bulbs should be planted in clumps, 

 five in each, separated at about two feet distance each way, and 

 covered with about five inches of mould. 



The Lilium Superbum is one of our own native species, but 

 one which has received the utmost attention from our transat- 

 lantic neighbors, to whose notice it was first introduced in 1727. 

 It is certainly one of the most magnificent of the American 



