16 BULLETIN 1459, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
occurring from late June to early July. On Puget Sound in average | 
seasons flowering takes place three or four weeks later, in the latter 
half of July. 
THE REGAL LILY AS A CUT FLOWER 
Its grace, beauty, and keeping qualities adapt this lily well to 
cut-flower purposes. When cut in the well-advanced bud stage it 
opens nicely in vessels of water when brought into living-room con- 
ditions. It has all the good qualities of a cut-flower lily. The 
flowers are tough and leathery, last well in water, and have an 
agreeable fragrance without, however, the offensive heaviness usually 
attributed to the Goldband species. Like the Easter lily (Liliwn 
longifiorum), 1t seems to be best cut for immediate use when the 
first bud has expanded. 
TRANSPLANTING 
As with most lies, the Regal is not difficult to transplant in 
vegetative condition. ‘The transplanting of young seedlings to 
small pots or flats, from them to the field, and from the field back 
into large pots has been described. On another page was also 
briefly discussed an instance of lifting the plants immediately after 
the flowers had faded, cutting off the bulb, and then heeling the 
stem in, 1 foot deep, in the usual slanting position. The stems thus 
handled become sufficiently reestablished not only to keep alive but 
to produce a crop of bulblets and a small crop of seed. Certainly 
no one could ask more of a plant than this. There is usually no 
occasion for moving the lily except during dormancy, but with care 
it can be accomplished at almost any time and as easily as with 
almost any perennial. 
TRANSPORTATION OF SEEDLINGS 
The transportation of seedlings by mail or express at any time 
during the development of the second leaf or thereafter is easily 
accomplished by the same methods as described in Department Bulle- 
tin 962.4. The young plants are carefully removed from the flats 
and laid in smooth, even piles of about 200 each. Each pile is then 
placed on a ribbon of sphagnum moss reaching only to original 
ground level and from which as much water as possible is squeezed 
out by hand. The whole is then rolled tightly in oiled paper and 
tied. Several of these rolls may be put together in a mail package, 
in cartons, or rolled in strips of corrugated board for shipment. 
Several wrappings of newspaper and wrapping paper on the outside 
of the board make very good insulation against any low tempera- 
tures to which the plants may be subjected. 
The young seedlings may also be wrapped tightly in newspaper 
or in oiled paper and this package wrapped in sphagnum as de- 
scribed in Department Circular 323.° This seems to be a really safer 
method than the former. : 
4 GRIFFITHS, D. THE PRODUCTION OF THE BASTHR LILY IN NORTHERN CLIMATES. U. S. 
Dept. Agr. Bul. 962, 31 pp., illus. 1921. 
5 GALLOWAY, B. T. HOW TO COLLECT, LABEL, AND PACK LIVING PLANT MATDRIAL FOR 
LONG-DISTANCH SHIPMENT, U, S, Dept. Agr. Circ. 323, 12 pp., illus. 1924. 
