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THE FLOWER GARDEN. 
(Tiger Lily) is a well-known species. It bears orange-red and 
dark-spotted flowers in August, and grows 4ft. high. One of 
the easiest grown and showiest lilies in cultivation. Fortunei 
giganteum is a variety of a more free-flowering habit ; flore 
pleno, a double-flowered variety ; and splendens, a form with 
richer colours and larger spots than the parent. L. testaceum 
byn. L. excelsum) is a hybrid, growing 5 to 6ft. high, and 
bearing nankeen-yellow or orange flowers in July. L. umbel- 
latum is another hybrid lily of which there are several pretty 
forms, as, Diadem, crimson and yellow ; grandiflorum, orange- 
red ; erectum, red and orange ; Sappho, orange and red ; Cloth 
of Gold, golden-yellow; and Tottenhami, yellow and red. 
1 hey grow 2ft. high, and flower in June and July. L. washing- 
tonianum is a Californian lily, with sweet-scented white and 
lilac flowers borne in July. Height 4 to 5ft. Purpureum is 
a pretty variety of it with white and red spotted flowers. 
A word as to the culture of lilies. Some of the foregoing 
kinds will succeed in ordinary soil ; others in a prepared soil 
of loam, leaf-mould and peat ; and others in peat and leaf-mould 
only. We shall therefore divide the lilies into three groups 
and deal with each separately so far as soil and position are 
concerned. 
In the first group, which includes the following species and 
their varieties, namely : Batemannias, bulbiferum, candidum, 
chalcedonicum, concolor, coridon, croceum, davuricum, excel- 
sum, elegans, Hansoni, Henryi, longiflorum, Marhan, Mar- 
tagon, pomponium, pyrenaicum, speciosum, tenuifolium, 
tigrinum, and umbellatum, ordinary garden soil will suffice. 
If it should be heavy lighten it with sand and rotten manure ; 
if very light, add rotten cow manure. Dig the soil deeply, and 
then the lilies will not fail to do well. The foregoing kinds 
will all do best in a sunny bed or border. 
In the second group a rich, deep and good soil is essential. 
Peat and leaf-mould should be freely mixed with the natural 
soil. The subsoil must also be fairly moist. Where there is 
the slightest risk of the subsoil being dry, take out the soil 
to a depth of 2ft., and place 6in. of cow manure at the 
bottom, then 6in. of soil on top, and fill up with equal parts of 
loam, peat, leaf-mould and sand. Do not mix manure with the 
upper layer of soil. In such a soil the following species and 
varieties will succeed : Auratum, Bakerianum, Bolanderi, 
Brownii, callosum, columbianum, cordifolium, giganteum, 
Humboldtii, japonicum, Kelloggii, kewense, Krameri, Leitch- 
lini, Martagon album and dalmaticum, Maximowiczii, 
monadelphum, pulchellum, rubellum, washingtonianum, and 
sulphureum. 
