ROSES AND LILIES 



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earliest will bloom in the end of June, and the latest 

 in October. 



One of the prettiest ways I have them is planted 

 among groups of Bambusa metake ; in this way they 

 scarcely want staking, and I always think look their 

 very best. I was advised to do it by a friend who had 

 seen them so grown in Japan, and I always feel grate- 

 ful for the good advice when I see how delightfully 

 they go together. 



This fine Lily, like some others, makes additional 

 roots a little way up the stem. The roots thrown out 

 by the bulb get to work first and prepare it for the 

 effort of throwing up the flower stem. When this is a 

 little way advanced, large hungry roots are thrown out 

 from the stem itself, quite two inches above the bulb, 

 This points to the need of deep planting, or better still, 

 of planting first in a deep depression, and filling up 

 later with a rich compost to such a depth as may 

 leave these stem-roots well underground, for these are 

 the roots that feed the flowers. 



The same way of having two storeys of roots is 

 seen in some other plants of rapid and large growth, 

 such as the great annual grasses of the Maize and 

 Millet tribe. 



Roses are with us for six months out of the twelve ; 

 as bushes large and small, as trim standards, as arbour 

 and pergola coverings, as wall plants, as great natural 

 fountains, and as far-reaching rambling growths rushing 

 through thickets and up trees and tossing out their 



