ing the bulbs and thus secure our own seeds from the Regales 

 growing in our own gardens. I am indebted to the nurseryman 

 who has this splendid stock of seedlings, for he most generously 

 told me of their culture, explaining to me exactly how he grows 

 them, and jou Avill find it is simplicity itself. Had I not seen the 

 results, really I could hardly have credited it. 



The seed are sown singly in ordinary seed flats filled with 

 good soil and sand (half and half), well mixed together. Place 

 each seed four inches away from its neighbor, and a scant inch 

 beloAv the level of the soil, which must always be kept moist (not 

 soaked) and the seed will germinate, every one of them. When 

 one year old the seedling bulbs should be transplanted to four- 

 inch pots and "grown on'' that way until they are large enough to 

 plant in the open garden, where they are to bloom. The choicest, 

 the largest and the most mature bulbs of Liliuni Regale are not 

 large ones, as bulbs go, or in comparison with the Auratum or 

 Speciosum bulbs, but they must be planted as deepl^^ as the very 

 large bulbs. Plant them eight inches deep in nests of sand, but 

 first dust their scales with flowers of sulphur, a precaution I 

 would take notwithstanding the fact that we have been assured 

 this lily bulb has no enemies as yet. 



Lilium Regale is perfectly hardy, it thrives in the coldest 

 climates and freely produces abundant, fertile seed than can be 

 planted as soon as they are ripe. The flats of seedlings need no 

 foddling, but may be placed out of doors where the.y should be 

 sheltered until freezing and then wintered in a cold frame. Per-; 

 sonally I would never allow young two-year-olcl seedling Regales 

 to flower, but would pinch away all the flower buds uutil they 

 had reached their third year. You realize, do you not, how simple 

 it all is? 



Let us do a little mental arithmetic. If we planted only six 

 bulbs oj Lilium Regale and each bulb produced eight flowers, and 

 each flower pod produced at the minimum six seeds (I say six 

 seeds to be conservative), how many seeds would the six bulbs 

 produce? So with a dozen bulbs of our own to start with and 

 the seed they will produce, we can soon enjoy a noble lily border 



