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THE PRACTICAL GARDENER. 



[Oct. 



NARCISSUSES. 



A light sandy soil is well adapted for the cultivation of 

 thesd flowers, moderately enriched with very old cow-dung. 

 As they do not flower well the season after planting, they are 

 therefore seldom taken up oftener than once in four or five 

 years, and that only to separate the bulbs which they may 

 have made. The earlier in the month that they are planted 

 the better. 



LILIUMS. 



All the species of this beautiful family deserve a place in 

 the flower garden ; the more common sorts, such as the Z. 

 candidum, L. hulb'tferum, L. martagon, Sec, will grow in 

 almost all situations and soils in the flower borders, or m the 

 shrubberies even under the shade of trees. The more va- 

 luable species, such as L. canadense, L. jcqjonicun?, and 

 L. i)1ii((i^ielphicum, require more attention, and will repay any 

 care that may be taken of them by the beauty of their flowers. 

 These are rather tender to stand out with safety in our flower 

 borders during the winter ; they should, therefore, be planted 

 in the most favorable situations, and protected during winter 

 with a hand-glass, as well as the surface of the ground round 

 their roots covered with coal-ashes, to resist the effects of 

 damp and also to exclude the frost ; or they may be planted 

 in deep pots, known by the name of bulb-pots, and removed 

 during winter into the green-house or into pits. But bulbous 

 plants of their size seldom flower so well in pots as when 

 planted out, for want of sufficient scope for their fibres, which 

 extend themselves much beyond the limits of ordinary-sized 

 pots. Some cultivators, however, succeed in flowering them 

 in pots ; such as Griffin, of South Lambeth, whose success in 

 flowering the LUiujn japonlcum in pots has been complete. 

 The pots he uses are of the size called twenty-fours, and the 

 mould in which he plants the roots is composed of about two- 

 thirds peat and one-third loam, the bottom of the pots being 

 well di'ained ; the bulbs are placed not more than an inch 



