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FR1TILLARIA IMPERIALIS. 
regions the bulbs are found at some depth among the 
detritus of sienite and vegetable mold, growing among 
coarse grasses', bracken and small shrubs. The finest 
specimens grow in a peat deposited by Gleichenia dich- 
otoma, which grows on shelving masses of sienite over 
which water percolates but never accumulates. Seeds 
of this species received four years ago, grew with a 
greenhouse florist friend, and although horribly ill- 
treated, still exist. I planted a single bulb in its own 
climate once, on a rockwork formed of a wagon load 
of rough stones and gritty forest detritus, and in two 
years it sent its stolons and bulbs through the whole 
mass. L. longiflorum takesima and L. Brownii have 
been known to pull through winters at Ottawa, Ont., 
where; the covering was supplemented by deep, long 
lying snow. Here in New Jersey the longiflorums 
endure under south fences, but flower poorly unless 
they are well covered with litter. L. candidum is not 
as common as it once was, and I fancy the debilitated 
forced stock often planted years ago is telling its story. 
L. Tigrinum splendens and the varieties of L. spe- 
ciosum hold their own better without attention here 
than any others. 
Far north, even in Canada, where sawdust covering 
is commonly practiced, L. auratum keeps better than 
here, where no one seems to think of covering. This 
species used to grow on the slopes of Fuji-Yama under 
similar conditions to those described for giganteum 
and Neilgherrense, but it is very unlikely to be found 
wild there now. I have previously said it would be 
worth while to try planting asparagus with it. L. 
Martagon album is another lily seen in greater per- 
fection in the St. Lawrence valley than elsewhere and 
I doubt if plants I saw were ever covered, for the own- 
ers didn’t seem to know them. Maybe the cool sum- 
mers and the deep snows together accounted for them. 
L. Martagon Dalmaticum is also fine but rarely seen. 
L. croceum, L. Dauricum, elegans vars., -(- testaceum, 
pomponium, chalcedonicum and concolor vars. have 
all done well north, but where they fail try hill side 
planting in well drained beds, and a foot or so of saw- 
mill refuse or other covering over them in winter. Is 
there anything finer after all than the swamp L. su- 
perbum, 7 feet high with 35 or 40 flowers to a stalk? 
' Fritillaria in 40 or 50 species are sometimes hand- 
some plants, occupying a similar range to lilies in the 
northern hemisphere, except that they are absent from 
N. E. America and that one is a native of Britain. 
Some species are so near to lilies in structure that it is 
difficult to draw the line between them, and they ap- 
pear under either name. About all are known in Euro- 
pean cultivation, F. Imperialis and F. Meleagris in 
handsome varieties. James MacPherson. 
(To be continued.) 
Garden and Forest. 
“LILIUM CORDIFOLIUM, WALL,” HIMALAYAS. L. GIGAN- 
TEUM IN A MASSACHUSETTS GARDEN. 
