THE CULTURE OF LILIUM LANCIFOLIUJI. 
the open air, and tten syringe it powerfully -witli clean water for five or ten minutes, taldng care 
that everj- leaf is thoroughly washed on both sides. This washing should be repeated twice 
a- week, and if they are much infested it may also be advisable to cover the plants with flowers 
of sulphur, aUomng it to remain two or three days, and then washing it oiF clean. 
Chorozema triangularis is a delicate plant, and requires very cai-eful management. In potting 
it, no loam must be used as for the stronger growing kinds, and the peat must be of the best 
quality, yeiy nicely comminuted and intermixed with sand, potsherds, and chai'coal broken 
small. Do not shift too largely until the plants are thoroughly established and strong, and 
then you must act with considerable caution. A warm part of the green-house, or interme- 
diate house, will be the best situation for this species, and even in the stove we have grown 
it with considerable success. — ^A. 
THE CULTURE OF LILIUM LANCIFOLIUjM. 
By Mr. GEORGE FREEMA:N', Botanic Garden, Chelsea. 
Nat. Order, LiLL,vcE.ai:. 
ITTIHE present is a suitable time to commence preparations for growing the varieties of Lihum lanci- 
ii folium as ornamental pot plants, either for exhibition, or for decorating the conservatory. This 
class of LiUmns is decidedly the best for pot cultm'e, not only on accomit of their beauty and fragrance, 
but also from then habit of flowering late in the summer. They are, moreover, easily managed, and 
are, therefore, very suitable plants for amatem- cultivators. Good, strong, healthy bulbs, which have 
now become cheap, should be purchased at once, and may be potted into the following compost : — three 
parts peat earth chopped very coarsely, and one part of good loam ; a good quantity of sand should be 
intermixed ; the clean, gritty sand which buUdevs use ^viIl do, but white sand is better. 
To produce a good display, two or thi'ee bulbs may be planted together in a pot ; six or eight stems 
form a good plant, and may be produced by planting two or three of the double crown bulbs which are 
often to be selected fi-om among strong roots, and are more suitable for pot culture than a number of 
single-eyed bulbs. Number six pots (13 inches diameter) wiU do vei-y well for two or three such bulbs, 
which will fui-nish five, sis, or more stems. The plants do best on the one-shift system ; the bulbs 
shoidd, consequently, be planted at once in the pots they are to flower in, taking care that they are 
well drained. On the two or three inches of broken potsherds, place some of the roughest of the 
sod, to keep the finer fi-om mixing with, and choking up the drainage ; fill up the pots to within thi-ee 
inches of the top, and then place the bulb or bulbs on the sm'face of the soil, covering about one inch 
of soil over them. Do not water them after potting, but place them in a cold frame or pit ; or beneath the 
greenhouse stage, if care is taken that they do not get wet fi'om the di'ippings of the plants above them. 
When they commence growing, if under the greenhouse stage, remove them into a fi'ame or pit ; 
and, wherever they are placed, let them, under favom'able cu'cumstances, have plenty of an-, so as to 
keep them stocky. Give them a good watering in this stage of then growth, and then let them 
remain without water for some considerable time ; they do not yet reqmre frequent waterings. Keep 
a watchful eye on them as they advance, that they do not get infested with the green fly, to which 
they are hable ; and if any of these troublesome insects appear, take the plants out of the fi'ame or 
pit, and give them, singly, a good syiinging with tobacco-water, holding the syringe over the central 
bud, that the tobacco-water may penetrate among the bases of the young leaves, where they are apt 
to sufier most fi-om the attacks of the aphides. About two hours afterwards, they must be syringed 
again ■svith clean water, to wash the stain of the tobacco off them. By the latter end of March, or 
early in April, if the season is a favourable one, they will begin to grow vigorously ; they wiU then 
require a greater quantity of water, and may be watered overhead, or syringed every genial or mild 
morning. They must now also have an abimdant supply of fi-esh ah. If they are in a fe-ame, it will 
be a good plan to raise it fi'om the ground, by putting a brick imdcr each corner, by which they will 
get plenty of bottom ah ; but the frame must be let down again, if the weather should tm'u out frosty, 
or cutting north-east winds should prevail, as is sometimes the case. About the latter end of May 
they will requu'c tm'fing up ; that is, a square box of fibrous peat should be built up above the pot 
rim, and pegged together so as to enclose the base of the stems ; this must be filled up with the same 
kind of compost as that in which they were potted, only made finer and more sandy ; they -nill root 
uito tliis sod, which wiU assist them very much. The plants must be tied up to the foi-m reqmi-ed, 
and put into the greenhouse, if the fi'ame is not deep enough to hold them ; they should be raised up 
near to the glass that they may not di'aw, which they are very apt to do when grooving fi'cely. Con- 
