LILIUM POMPO'NIUM, 
POMPONE LILY. 
Class. 
HEXANDRIA. 
Order 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
TOLIPACEAi. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
Siberia. 
2 feet. 
May, June. 
Perennial. 
in 1629. 
No. 444. 
The word Lilium has been adopted from old 
Latin authors, who had derived it from the Greek 
lerion; a name, doubtless, applied to some splen- 
did plant of the East, generally belived to have 
been a species of Amaryllis. Pomponium, from 
the name of a place. 
This beautiful flower is not so generally culti- 
vated as it deserves; indeed, we are convinced that 
it only arises from many species of Lily being un- 
known, that they are not more generally introduced 
into almost every garden. Their roots demand no 
culture; their flowering stems grow up indepen- 
dently of the gardener’s care; and their flowers, 
from purest white, through various shades of attrac- 
tive hues, claim, proverbially, our admiration. 
According to Mr. Loudon, the Lilium pomponi- 
um has another claim to notice. He says, it is cul- 
tivated in Kamtschatka as the potato is in Britain, 
and that its bulbs are in like manner l^id up for 
winter store. They are there called savannas, and 
when boiled, taste exactly like a waxy potatoe. 
We need only observe, that the bulbs should not 
be moved when in an active state of growth. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 2, 242. 
