136 .Wew Japan Lilies. 
Hardines and adaptation to the open ground. — That the Japan 
Lilies and their offspring, may become tenants of our gardans, 
and sufficiently hardy to endure our climate, is much to be desired. 
The scarcity and high price of these have, until recently, been a 
hindrance to much experience in this respect. I can, however, 
state some facts, which give great reason to expect that they or 
their hybrids will prove so. Soon after the introduction of the 
L. speciosum, a bulb stood the winter perfectly well, protected 
only by a pot, in the garden of a gentleman in this city — and I 
learn that one of the same sort has, for two or three years, re- 
mained uninjured in a garden in the city of New York. My own 
experience is quite encouraging. Eighteen bulbs were planted 
in the open ground last November, in a bed of Tree Paeonias, be- 
tween the rows; these were covered with four inches of peat, and 
and when the ground closed up, about the same depth of sea- 
weed was added to the covering; every bulb is alive, and now 
making vigorous growth. It is sufficiently evident, that if the 
Japan Lilies prove hardy, their culture in the open ground, and 
in a deep rich border, will be of the easiest description. 
General treatment. — I am now supposing the course of in-door 
culture. The dormant bulbs having been potted, they should be 
placed in a forcing pit, with a little gentle heat, removing them 
as near to the light as possible, as soon as the leaves begin to un- 
fold themselves; water must be given sparingly during the first 
period of growth, or until new roots have been formed; after 
■which it may be administered plentituUy whenever the surface of 
the soil becomes dry, remembering the good old rule that the 
supply of water must always be in proportion to the supply of 
solar light. 
A flue in the green house will do very well, provided the pots 
are kept constantly moist. In the early stages of their growth, a 
warm humid atmosphere is particularly favorable to a vigorous 
start; this will be seen by the mesh of white roots emitted on the 
surface of the soil, and which, with those below, are the greedy 
recipients of any reasonable quantity of richness that may be ad- 
mistered in the form of liquid manure or guano; under these in- 
fluences and judicious shiftings of the bulbs to larger pots, the 
luxuriance is truly astonishing, strong bulbs throwing up thick, 
robust stems of three or four feet, covered with a dense white 
bloom, alike significant of the adaptation of the soil and tempera- 
ture in which they delight to revel. 
When the flower buds are developed, the Lilies should be re- 
moved to the temperature of the green-house, the nearer the light 
the better. The bloom being past, the plants should be watered 
more sparingly, and when a disposition for dormacy is evinced, 
by the Avaning yellow foliage, this may be entirely dispensed with 
