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LI LIU M TESTACEUM. 
Yet good specimens are far from frequent. The principal thing that they 
require is a rich, but light soil ; such as an open fresh loam, with a fair proportion 
of rotten dung incorporated. The latter both enriches 
the other earth, and serves to keep it light. They 
should not be grown more than one or two years in 
the same soil. 
For the present species, a low-roofed conservatory, 
or a cold pit or frame which has a sufficiently high 
roof, seems to be the best situation, as it flourishes 
better in a bed or border than in a pot. If kept 
in a pot, it should have a large one. Possibly, like 
the varieties of L. speciosum, it may turn out to be 
nearly or wholly hardy ; and then it will of course 
succeed most perfectly in a prepared border, that is 
open to the south, and otherwise unprotected, or shel- 
tered only at the back. 
In multiplying this and the rest of the species, a 
single scale, taken from the bulbs, will suffice to pro- 
duce a young plant ; and some clever propagators will 
even make four or five plants of each scale, by slitting 
it into so many pieces. The engraving shows the 
habit of the plant. 
