Plate 504 . 
LILIUM THUNBERGIANUM BICOLOR. 
There is not perhaps a class of plants more universally 
admired than that of the Lilies, whether it be for gorgeousness 
or simplicity, for purity of colour or brilliancy of tint ; they are 
everywhere admired, and yet by how very few systematically 
cultivated. One gentleman, G-eorge F. Wilson, Esq., has done 
much in this direction, both by bringing forward specimens of 
his own cultivation, and by offering prizes to be competed for 
at the Royal Horticultural Society ; while Mr. W. Bull of 
Chelsea has introduced some striking novelties, which may 
tend to make them still more popular. 
Japan has furnished some of the most beautiful of the 
greenhouse or half-hardy species, many of which are indeed 
proving themselves nearly if not quite hardy ; from it we 
obtained the fiery red L. atrosanguineum, and the pure white 
eximium ; from it, in the year 1833, we obtained L. sjje- 
ciosum and its varieties (and we well remember how great was 
the sensation it created) ; and about the same time L. Tliun- 
bergianum ; while at a still Eater period we all can remember the 
astonishment of the horticultural world when the lovely and 
gorgeous L. auratum was exhibited by Mr. Veitcli of Chelsea, 
and Mr. Standish of Ascot. Then they were to be envied who 
could procure it; it has since, however, become so plentiful 
that every one is enabled to grow it, and many very beautiful 
varieties of it have been flowered. 
