HARDY LILIUMS. 



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borders occupied by the earlier flowers which have passed away. For late flowering 

 the varieties of L. speciosum, of which the so-called "species 1 ' Hcnryi (Fig. 137) is 

 said by some authorities to belong, arc exceedingly valuable. 



Lilies vary in their requirements ; but it may be said that they succeed best when 

 planted in deeply worked soil, where the mid-day sun does not shine fully upon them, 

 and where the roots of trees or other plants will not deprive them of the necessary 

 moisture. For convenience 

 the list which follows, which 

 comprises only some of the 

 easiest to grow, is numbered — 



1. Those which grow in 



good garden soil with the 

 addition of loam, if light, and 

 leaf-mould, if heavy. 



2. These require deep 

 friable loam, with leaf soil 

 and sand added, if of a clayey 

 nature. 



3. These should have 

 moisture, and the addition of, 

 say, three-parts of peat and one 

 of sand to the ordinary soil. 



The ground ought to be 

 well dug, the sub-soil broken 

 up and enriched, and a little 



sandy peat put at the base of the bulb ; half an inch of sand all over the latter will be 

 found beneficial. 



Fiff. 137. Lilium Henkyi. 



Selection of Liliums. 



2 auratum and varieties, white, yellow, and red, 

 3 to 7 ft. 



1 Batemanni, apricot, 3 ft. 



2 Browni, white and brown, 3 to 4 feet. 



3 candidum, white, 3 to 5 ft. 



*1 canadense (Fig. 138) and varieties, yellow to red, 

 2 to 4 ft. 



*1 chalcedonicum, scarlet, 2| to 4 ft. 



1 concolor, scarlet, 1 ft. 



*1 croceum, orange, 2 to 3 \ ft. 



*1 excelsum, Nankeen yellow, 4 to 5 ft. 



2 giganteurn, white, 9 to 14 ft. 



3 Grayi, red spotted purple, 3 to 4 ft. 



1 Hansoni, yellow, 3 to 4 ft. 



*1 Henryi, orange-yellow, 4 to 6 ft. (Fig. 137). 



2 Huniboldti, yellow, spotted purple, 5 ft. 



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