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lovers and collectors, the genu 
increased. 
During the last fifteen years ] 
parison with twenty years ago, 
Fig. 27. — L. canadensk. 
is gradually being added to and 
iilies have been very plentiful in corn- 
hundreds of thousands reaching this 
Fig. 2-'. — L. tenuifolium. 
country every year from Japan and Bermuda, to say nothing of the 
thousands that are shipped to America. As a natural consequence bulbs, 
which twenty -five years ago used to make from one guinea to five guineas 
each, can now be bought at a shilling to os. each. I thmk one hardly 
realises what an enormous trade has so quickly grown up in the special 
cultivation of Lilies suitable for forcing, such as that which has been 
carried on during the last ten years in Japan and Bermuda. From the 
latter place I suppose that at least one or tAvo million bulbs are annually 
exported, which would be worth about £15,000. Then from Japan, that 
Fig. 2<J. — L. superbum. Fig. 30. — L. neilgheeense. 
marvellous Lily country, some four or five million bulbs of L. longi- 
Horum were exported last year : they would be worth fully ^25,000 or 
more. Then what becomes of the bulbs ? They are nearly all forced for 
the various flower markets during the spring and early summer, Easter 
