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hold a dozen bulbs, and it is better to pot several together, because 
of the advantage of depth of soil when large pots are used. The 
best place for the pots is a cold frame, in which they should be 
plunged to the rim in coal-ashes or tan. Keep the lights oif as much 
as possible, but put them on during heavy rains, and cover them 
with mats during frost. From first to last they must have water, 
but during the winter they will need but little. As soon as the 
growth spears through increase the supplies, and in the height of 
summer give abundance. Early in May remove them from the frame, 
and put them out of doors on a brick or stone pavement in the full 
sun, taking care to protect the roots from the sunshine by laying 
a few boards aslant against the pots. The under sides of these 
boards will be always damp, and this will promote a cool state of the 
roots, while the leafage has all the advantage of sunshine. I have 
found that the use of liquid manure promotes the flowering at the 
expense of the bulbs, and I should recommend the amateur never 
to apply liquid manure except to specimens intended for exhibition, 
for the bulbs usually perish as the result of using it. Some growers 
repot annually, but I have found it better practice to repot every 
second year; and in the autumn, when repotting does not take 
place, I remove as much of the old soil as possible without injuring 
the roots, and replace it with a mixture of equal parts rotten manure 
and mellow loam. 
Bulbiferum, Candtduin, Tigrinum, Pomponium, Excelsum or Tes- 
taceum., Ghalcidonicum, and Martagon are the best of the cheap 
border lilies, and need only to be planted out in clumps to repay the 
cultivation, with their fine umbels of flowers. Of this group Chal- 
cidonicum is alone worth growing in pots. The well-known Mar- 
tagon, or “ Turk’s cap,” is by no means a showy plant, but large 
clumps of it in odd places have a good effect, and we must not be in 
haste to c^ecard so good a reminiscence of the days of Gerard and 
Parkinson. 
Cordifolium or Giganteum is a singular plant, unlike other lilies, 
and only adapted for the garden of an amateur who can exercise 
patience in order to secure a good thing. I have seen it growing 
grandly in a bed of peat in a sheltered garden in Somerset, and I 
have had pretty good luck with it on my heavy soil, but the wet 
winter of 1872-3 destroyed my stock. It is a fine pot plant, 
requiring a firm loamy compost, and to be shifted on every autumn 
until it flowers, and then it should not be disturbed for a year, by 
which time there will be a stock of bulbs in the pot, and they may 
be shaken out and divided. If well managed, and especially if 
bountifully supplied with water from May to August, the flower- 
stem will rise five or six feet, and present a noble cluster of a dozen 
flowers of an elegant funnel shape, five or six inches long, ivory white, 
with a delicate tinge of purple in the throat. 
Concolor. — A neat-growing plant, with spreading lanceolate 
leaves and a handsome corymb of half a dozen crimson- scarlet 
flowers, which are indistinctly spotted, and quite without fragrance. 
This would make a magnificent bedding plant, and it is also well 
worthy of pot culture. 
