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THE ELOWEB GABDETS". 



length, and Szowitz's Lily, often confounded with the 

 preceding, are similar in constitution. The Isabelle 

 Lily, Jj. testaceum, of a light bright brick-red or buff, of 

 unknown origin, is as easy of cultivation as the common 

 White and Orange Lilies. Thompson's Lily, so named 

 by Dr. Lindley, has lilac flowers half the size of the 

 White Lily, requires light loam, and protection from 

 damps in winter. L. giganteum, a noble lily, sends up 

 a flower-stem ten feet high. 



The following exquisite species are more or less hardv, 

 as far as present experience goes, in a mixture of leaf- 

 mould and sandy loam : The Japan Lily, L. Japonicum 

 (often confounded with the sweet-scented lily, L. odorum, 

 also from Japan, a treasury of flowers which has furnished 

 several beautiful species of lily), a superb plant, bears 

 very large solitary and terminal white flowers slightly 

 dashed with purple outside. The Long-flowered Lily, 

 i. longiflorum, resembles the former, but is still hand- 

 somer. Brown's Lily, much in the same style, and 

 Wallick's Lily, from the north of India. Perhaps the 

 most elegant of all is the Lance-leaved Lily, L. speciosum, 

 or lanceolatum, of which there are several varieties, which 

 may be classed under the heads of white and red, or 

 L. speciosum album and JO. speciosum rubrum. Plants of 

 these may be had of respectable seedsmen and florists, 

 such as James Carter & Co., 238, High Holborn, for 

 from two to three shillings each. As yet, they are grown 

 in pots, in peaty soil, and are treated as greenhouse 

 perennials. They well repay any trouble that may be 

 bestowed on them ; but plants from China and Japan 

 have often proved more hardy than was expected at their 

 first introduction. It is probable that the scaly bulbs 

 of the whole Lily genus are edible in case of need. In 

 rustic medicine, the pounded bulbs of the White Lily 

 are a favourite cataplasm for burns and scalds. 



Narcissus. — Two species have been already noticed 

 under their trivial names of Daffodil and Jonquil. By 

 Narcissuses, in ordinary gardening language, are under* 

 stood the Polyanth or Many-flowered Narcissus, M 



