THE FLORAL MAGAZINE. 
Peachy, Stamford Hill, and awarded a First-class Cer- 
tificate of Merit. The flowers are neat and compact, 
not over large, but well-formed, the colour golden- 
amber and cinnamon-brown shaded. It is a decided 
acquisition, and worthy of notice. 
The best large-flowered incurved varieties are : 
Empress of India, Prince Alfred, Golden Empress of 
India, Lady Slade, Mrs. George Rundle, George Glenny, 
Mrs. Dixon, John Salter, Lady Hardinge, Golden 
Beverley, Princess Beatrice, Princess of W ales, Isabella 
Bolt, Barbara, Abbe Passaglia, Eve, Hereward, Golden 
John Salter, and Emily Dale. Of the Japanese varieties, 
the following have been very fine : — Fair Maid of 
Guernsey, Grandiflora, Baron de Frailley, Ethel, Bou- 
quet Fait, Elaine, Meg Merillies, Criterion, L’ Incom- 
parable, Fulgore, Red Dragon, Nagasaki Violet, Peter 
the Great, Fulton, Mons. Deleaux, Sarnia, Le Negre, 
James Salter, Roseum pictum, and La Frisure. Of the 
useful and pretty Pompone varieties, especial mention 
must be made of Mdlle. Marthe, Marabout, Fanny, 
White Cedo Nulli, St. Michael, Calliope, Marie, Bob, 
Model of Perfection, and Unique. 
For conservatory and greenhouse decoration we 
decidedly prefer the Japanese, recurved large flowering, 
and Pompone types. They all flower freely without 
the necessity for much disbudding, and they afford a 
large quantity of material for cut bloom. 
There is a group of what are termed summer-flowering 
Chrysanthemums. These are being grown more ex- 
tensively every year as their merits become known, for 
old as most of the varieties are, they were seldom seen 
until quite recently. Just as the bedding and other 
out-door plants become shabby, these Chrysanthemums 
are at their best, and continue flowering until the bulk 
of the other varieties come into bloom, to which they 
act the part, as it were, of an advance guard. Being 
dwarf in habit, and otherwise very suitable for small 
pots, these Chrysanthemums are now brought largely 
into Covent Garden Market during the season. The 
best are Madame Dufry, white ; Precocite, yellow ; 
Henderson’s Yellow ; Lucinda, bluish ; Little Bob, 
maroon ; Cassy, white, tipped with lilac ; and Scarlet 
Gem, pale crimson. There are others, but these may 
be taken as a good selection. 
IMPORTED JAPAN LILIES. 
Predictions were hazarded some time since that the 
year 1880 would be a good season for Japan Lilies, 
and the prediction appears to have come true. Already 
large importations of Japan Lilies are taking place, 
and firms who do a Japan trade find it advantageous 
to import cases of Lilies, and offer them for sale by 
public auction. It would seem that the Japanese who 
send over the Lilies forward at the same time coloured 
illustrations of the varieties they export, and in these 
coloured illustrations we find the representations of 
some of the commonest Lilies in our garden. The bulbs 
of Lilium auratum are very fine ; but those who buy 
imported bulbs must expect to lose a good number of 
them from a kind of decay or rot that appears peculiar 
to the Lily. 
It is said that the wire-worm is the most destructive 
force that Lilies have to encounter after being planted. 
One cultivator, taking a leaf out of the book of the 
farmers, recommended planters to use rape-cake hoed 
into the surface, as satisfactory results have flowed 
therefrom. Lilium auratum is said to be especially 
liable to destruction from this worm ; and we are 
informed that this cake, as a preventive, has been long 
known to the Japanese, and extensively used by them 
with linseed meal as a manure. It is simply necessary 
to break the cake into small pieces and hoe it into the 
ground where the Lilies grow. 
One who deals largely in imported Lilies recom- 
mends that if the bulbs are to have ordinary treatment 
a good sunny position is best, provided it is not too 
well drained and dry. Artificial and independent 
drainage is absolutely necessary ; it is, therefore, best 
to take out the ground to the depth of two or three 
feet, put a good bed of drainage into the hole, and fill 
up with good peat, or, if this cannot be obtained, 
with a good, free and light garden loam to within one 
foot of the top, and cover this with two or three inches 
of leaf-mould free from worms and insects. On this 
should be placed a mixture of good loam and sand, 
about six inches deep, on which the bulbs are planted 
in clusters of some five or six of each variety, and the 
bulbs covered with a mixture of sooty, sandy soil, 
which prevents worms and vermin from attacking the 
bulbs. When the growth is well above the soil, weak 
dilutions of manure will benefit and strengthen the 
plants ; and once or twice in the season some weak 
lime-water may be given with advantage. For pot 
purposes the same soil may be used, with top dressings 
of linseed or rape-cake, which is highly spoken of as a 
manure for Lilies. 
