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than in the type. L. pardalinum succeeds well in the Lily 

 garden under the treatment recommended forL. canadense, 

 and will also grow and flower well in porous loam, 

 although peat or leaf-mould is to be preferred. A fair 

 sight is it to see the tall stems swaying in the wind. 

 L. pomponium is a very charming Lily, about 3ft. in 

 height, with red flowers. In the variety Verum the colour 

 of the flowers is bright scarlet. It is a good garden 

 plant. 



L. pyrenaicum, from I he Pyrenees, lias chrome yellow 

 flowers, spotted black, with crimson anthers. This hand- 

 some Lily is unpleasantly perfumed, which makes it 

 useless for indoor decoration, and renders even the 

 surrounding air in the open garden offensive to some 

 people. It is the earliest of the garden Lilies, often 

 opening in May in the Southern Counties. 



L. rubellum. — A new Lily from Japan, and not more 

 than l8in. high. Its flowers are coral pink. It is an 

 exceedingly beautiful Lily, and should it prove sufficiently 

 hardy for general culture in the open garden, will 

 undoubtedly take a high rank among the denizens of the 

 Lily-bed, the pink L. Krameri not proving satisfactory 

 in the hands of most cultivators. 



L. speciOSUITl, formerly known as L. lancifolium, a native 

 of Japan, is from 2ft. to 3ft. high. There are about 

 fifteen forms of this Lily, the best known being 

 L. speciosum album, white ; Krsetzeri, white, with green 

 band running from base to tip of petals ; punctatum, 

 white, spotted pink ; roseum, white, stained rose and 

 spotted with darker colour ; rubrum, white, stained crimson 

 and heavily spotted ; and Melpomene, crimson, spotted 

 with maroon. If one Lily only is chosen, it should be 

 this one, as it is so easily cultivated and seems less 

 likely to be attacked by 

 disease than any other. It 

 may lie easily grown in 

 pots or tubs, and kept 

 year after year. Many a 

 cottager has noble masses 

 of it/ 



L. SUperbum (the Swamp 

 Lily), a native of North- 

 Eastern America, grows 

 from 6ft. to 7ft. high, and 

 has bright orange crimson 

 flowers, spotted maroon ; as 

 many as thirty blossoms are 

 sometimes borne on one 

 stem, and it succeeds under 

 the treatment advised for 

 L. canadense. 



L. tigrinum and its varie- 

 ties form a brilliant group. 

 L. tigrinum is the type, 

 and grows from 3ft. to 4ft. 

 in height, with flowers 

 orange red with purple 

 spots. There are three 

 well-known forms of the 

 type, namely : L. tigrinum 

 splendens, with larger 

 flowers, and growing to a 

 height of from 5ft. to 6ft.; 

 L. t. Fortunei, a still more 

 vigorous form, sometimes 

 reaching a height of 

 7k., and often remaining 

 in bloom as late : s 

 October. It is easily 

 identified by its stems being covered with a grey pubes- 

 cence. There is also a double kind, known under the 

 name of L. t. flore-pleno. The Tiger Lilies constitute a 

 very valuable section of our garden Lilies, being the last 

 of all the Lilies to expand their blooms, and not being 

 particular as to soil or situation. They may be easily 

 propagated by sowing the bulbils, produced at the nodes 

 ol the leaves, in a seed pan and planting out later in a 

 prepared bed, where they will bloom in the course of 



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three or four years. Splendens is the best form, and 

 gorgeous in masses. 



Other Lilies of considerable beauty are : Alexandra, 

 the flowers white, and the plant 2ft. in height ; Bate- 

 manniae, a beautiful kind from Japan, the plant 3ft. high, 

 and the flowers clear apricot in colour ; Catesbtei, from 

 North America, 2ft. high, the flowers orange red, spotted 



with purple — it is partial t oist, peaty soil, and a 



shaded position ; Camiolicuni, jft. high, flowers red 

 ami reflexed. Hansoni grows 4U. in height, the 

 flowers like those of L. Martagon in form, and 

 orange yellow spotted with black; Krameri is a very 

 beautiful Lily when one can coax it into respectable 

 growth, and frequently is happy amongst Rhodo- 

 dendrons in a clearing, so to say, where its pink flowers 

 gain in freshness and charm. It is somewhat similar in 

 growth to L. auratum, and is probably a wild hybrid 

 between I his Lilv and some other; L. nepalense, a 

 Nepaul Lily, 2ft. to 3ft. high, flowers pale yellow, pots ; 

 Leichtlini, bright lemon yellow, spotted with purple, a 

 pretty Lily; L. Lowi, from Burmah, flowers white, spotted 

 purple ; Neilgherrense, flowers white, 6in. in length, and 

 the plant 3ft. high ; Odorum, or japonicum Colchesteri, 

 white, tinged w ith purple outside ; Parvum, yellow, 

 shaded red ; Parryi, golden yellow, spotted chocolate, 

 a graceful Lily, 3ft. high ; Philadelphicum, a native of 

 North America, with flowers of an orange colour, dotted 

 with purple-black. There are forms of this Lily, differing 

 slightly from the type in colouring. It is most at home 

 in moist, porous soil. L. S/.ovit/ianum grows from 

 4ft. to 6ft. in height, and has flowers of variable 

 colouring, ranging from sulphur yellow to deep 

 gold, some self, others heavily spotted. It succeeds 

 best in deep, moist loam. 

 Tenuifolium is a native of 

 Siberia, and is only about 

 2ft. in height, its stem 

 slender, and bearing in 

 June c r i m s o n - scarlet 

 flowers. Poly phyl 1 u 111 , 

 cream, spotted with dark 

 purple ; VVallacei, ruddy 

 orange, spotted with 

 maroon ; Wallichianum, a 

 very tall Lily, height 6ft., 

 flowers white, and gin. in 

 length; and the Californian 

 L. Washingtonianum, which 

 is about 6ft. high, white 

 flowers, tinged with lilac 

 purple, often spotted. The 

 flower sterns sometimes 

 carry as many as twenty 

 blossoms. 



Lily of the Valley. —The 



successful culture of the 

 Lily of the Valley (Con- 

 vallaria majalis), which is 

 indeed a native in not a 

 few of our English wood- 

 lands, presents no features 

 of difficulty provided the 

 plants are afforded a root- 

 run free from invasion by 

 more rapacious subjects, 

 and that their vigour is sus- 

 tained by judicioussolicitude 

 for their requirements in the 

 way of nutriment. It is a 

 popular fallacy that Lilies of the Valley will grow any- 

 where where there is shade, and therefore are they to be 

 seen languishing beneath Laurels and evergreens, or eking 

 out a precarious existence below rampant climbers. In 

 these cases it is not the shade that is harmful, but the 

 impoverishment of the soil by the all-pervading roots 

 that prevents their due development. Lilies of the Valley 

 will grow well in partial shade, or in the full sunlight, 

 provided the soil they are planted in is deep and rich. 



