552 Notice relative to the Flowering of Lilium Japonicum. 



mainingstem produced but one flower. The compost in which 

 the bulb was planted is an equal portion of Wimbledon bog 

 mould and strong loam, and until the top of the plant reach- 

 ed the glass it was occasionally covered by the light of the 

 frame. 



Lilium Japonicum appears to be sufficiently hardy to en- 

 dure our winters, as I have had a bed of them in the open 

 ground two years without protection ; the leaves and stems 

 were, however, much injured by the wind and rain, while 

 growing, and none attained a height exceeding fifteen inches. 

 I am therefore of opinion that if treated as a hardy plant, it 

 should be grown in a situation well protected by trees and 

 shrubs, and not in the front of the flower border. Like 

 most of its congeners, it delights in shade, and is well adapt- 

 ed to ornament thick and close shrubberies where other 

 herbaceous plants do not thrive ; it is easily propagated by 

 separating the scales of the bulbs, each of which in time will 

 become a good plant; it forms also small bulbs on the stem, 

 below, the surface of the ground, so that it will not be long, 

 I hope, before this truly magnificent plant becomes one of 

 the chief ornaments of the garden. 



Our knowledge of the species, as a native of Japan, was 

 derived first from K^mpfer,* and afterwards from Thun- 

 berg.+ The former adds the Japanese name of Sazuri to 

 his description, but, from his account, as well as from that 

 of the latter writer, it appears to produce only one flower on 

 a stem in its native country The Chinese probably received 

 their plants from the Javanese. In China the plant is es- 



* Amcenitates Exoticae, page 871. "f* Flora Japonica, page 133. 



