294 SHRUBBERIES AXD FLOWER-GARDENS. [CKAP. 



Lat. Liliuin hulhiferum. Native of Austria and some parts of 

 Italy. Large flower with upright petals, colour of deep orange, 

 blowing in June and July. Grows about two feet high, and is 

 veiy ornamental in the borders. They propagate very fast by 

 offsets, and should be parted once every two or three years, which 

 may be done from the time of the stalks decaying till November. 

 — — -Lily, white water. — Lat. Nymphea alba. A hardy perennial 

 water-plant, common in England ; growing in muddy ponds, but 

 never, as far as I have observed it, coming spontaneously in any 

 but stiff clay soils. I never saw it so generally as in Lancashire, 

 in the neighbourhood of Preston, where there is scarcely a httle 

 pond that is not covered over in the month of June with this very- 

 beautiful large flower. In garden ponds it is common to see 

 them, and a great ornament they are to such places ; but they 

 must be procured first, and planted next : two operations of a 

 most difficult nature ; for you have to dig up the root from the 

 bottom of a pond, perhaps two or three feet deep, and then you 

 have to plant it under a similar difficulty. To dig it up you 

 must actually go into the pond, feel for the stem of the plant, 

 pursue it mth your hand to the ground, and then dig up as good 

 a ball as you can round the roots. Suffer it to remain out of water 

 as short a time as possible. Some recommend the placing it in a 

 vase, and sinking that to the bottom of your pond ; but I think 

 a better way is to place your plant in an old fish-basket, fiill of 

 suitable mould, and sink that : if you can, sinking it a httle way 

 into the earth at the bottom of the pond, as weU as sinking it 

 to the bottom of the water. In this way the plant is not ne- 

 cessarily confined to so small a space as in the vase ; for when 

 its roots have extended to the edge of the basket, there ^^ill 

 be room for them to go through, and, as the basket rots 



away, the plant becomes fixed in the bed of the pond. 



Lily, yellow water. — Lat. N. lutea. Like the former in all 

 respects, excepting that it bears a yellow flower, which is rather 

 smaller than that of the white. Cultivate in just the same 

 manner. 



516. LILY OF THE VALLEY.— See Solomon^s Seal. 



517. LOBELI A,ac7'zc?. — Lat. L. urens. Ahardy perennial plant 

 of England, about one foot high, and blows a blue flower in July 

 and August. Propagated by sowing in a good earth, rather con- 

 sistent than light, and should be watered often. Lobelia, or 



