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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ November 15, 1883. 
Small’s Admirable, Blenheim Pippin, Warner’s King, Lod- 
dington, Peasgood’s Nonesuch, Bymer, Wormsley Pippin, 
Dumelow’s Seedling, and Northern Greening. 
I might have named a greater number of good varieties, 
but a short list is often of greater service than a long to that 
great number of persons who only want a “ few trees.”— 
A. Young. 
LILIUMS. 
(Continued from page 397.) 
L. davuricum, Gawl.—A very showy Lily, growing from 
2 to 3 feet high, with slender stems bearing numerous narrow 
shining leaves, and terminating with few-flowered umbels of 
bright red slightly dotted flowers. Native of Central and 
Eastern Siberia, from the Altai Mountains to Kamtschatka; 
flowering in this country with L. croceum. It is a very variable 
species, and usually a large number of varietal forms are placed 
with it, which, however, is a rather difficult matter to decide. 
It is questionable whether these so-called varieties of L. davu¬ 
ricum may not be as closely related to L. bulbiferum, and I am 
not sure that L. Thunbergianuin may not have been employed 
in their production. Amongst the best of these forms are 
grandiflorum, incomparabile, Sappho, rubens, and atrosanguinea, 
all of which are grand border kinds; indeed, are some of the 
best and showiest Lilies for outdoor culture. 
L. Hansom, Leicht.—A very charming Japanese Lily, grow¬ 
ling from 3 to 4 feet high, with rather large leaves in whorls. 
Flowers several in a lax raceme, with the perianths of a rich 
Lright orange colour dotted with purple upon the lower half of 
■4he segments, which are revolute. This very handsome species 
flowers in June and July, and enjoys a damp partially shaded 
position. One of the brightest of the genus. 
L. Humboldtii, Roez. et Leicht.—Another splendid species, 
-growing in good soil from 4 to 6 feet high, with stout stems of 
■whorled leaves. Flowers usually numerous, but varying from 
six to thirty, arranged in a deltoid panicle; perianth bright 
orange-red, copiously spotted with claret-coloui'ed dots, with the 
segments sharply reflexed. Native of California, occurring on 
the Sierra Nevada, flowering in our gardens in July and August. 
It is synonymous with L. Bloomerianum, and there is a variety 
named ocellatum which is similar to the type, but worth having. 
L. Leichtlim, Hook, fil.—A very elegant Lily from Japan, 
named in honour of a very enthusiastic cultivator; growing 
from 2 to 3 feet high, with slender stems clothed with narrow 
leaves. Flowers usually few in number, with the perianth 
divisions sharply re M exed, of a bright lemon colour, thick dotted 
with crimson from the base nearly to the apices. It flowers in 
July and August, sometimes lasting on into September, enjoying 
a damp position in peaty soil. I have a nice patch in the bog 
bed, and have found it do better there than elsewhere. It is very 
erratic in its method of growth, coming up where you do not 
-expect it, the stems running a good bit beneath the surface. 
L. longijiorum, Thunb.—The white Trumpet Lily, one of the 
most beautiful of all Lilies, and extremely useful, varying con¬ 
siderably in the form and size of the flower as well as the time 
•of flowering. The type is too well known to require description 
in these pages, with its large pure white trumpet-shaped flowers. 
I will mention varieties of it which are very desirable in addition 
~to the normal form eximium, perhaps the most useful of all, 
with very fine flowers, coming a month later than the type. Albo- 
anarginatum has the foliage margined with silvery white. 
Harrisii is very valuable because of its freeness in flower¬ 
ing; after one stem dies down another is sent up. I did not 
believe it possessed this characteristic, but have abundant proof 
of it now, having some bulbs which are now sending up the 
third set of stems for this season, and are evidently producing 
good flowers. Wilsoni is also a good form, with large flowers. 
By using all these varieties I have had these beautiful Trumpet 
Lilies in excellent order from the end of May to the present 
time (Oct. 17th). 
L. Martagon, Linn.—The Turk’s-cap Lily, a well-known old- 
fashioned species, one of the earliest known of all Lilies, pro¬ 
ducing steins from 3 to 6 feet high, with whorls of broadish 
leaves, and terminated with loose racemes of dark claret-coloured 
flowers with sharply revolute segments. Native of Southern 
Europe, extending through modern and eastern Europe, Siberia 
to Japan. There are some varieties under cultivation, which for 
garden decoration are much superior to the normal form, two of 
which I will mention. The white-flowered variety, album, is 
one of the most charming of all Lilies, with racemes of pure 
white flowers, an lit is happily becoming more plentiful. Like all 
the Martagons it detests being disturbed; you see grand masses 
of it in some old-fashioned places which have remained undis¬ 
turbed for very many years. I know of one such batch in par¬ 
ticular which was broken up two years since with the idea of 
improving them, but the result is far from satisfactory. Then 
there is the very handsome variety named dalmaticum, which 
perhaps is difficult to distinguish from Cattanesp, which is more 
vigorous than the type, with very long racemes of flowers, varying 
in colour from a light purple to a deep blood red, with or without 
spots. All the Martagons are well worth growing, being but 
little trouble, and flowering from the end of June to August. 
I. pardalinum, Kellogg.—A very showy species from the 
Western States of America, exhibiting a considerable amount 
of differentiation, so much so that several of its varieties have 
been placed in specific rank by some authorities. The typical 
form grows about 3 or 4 feet high, with smooth stems clothed 
especially in the middle with whorls of shining lightish green 
leaves. Flowers several, in a loose umbel; perianth about 2J or 
3 inches across, bright red, oranged at the base and copiously 
spotted with deep purplish brown spots, appearing at the end of 
July and August. Of the varieties under cultivation californicum 
is undoubtedly the best, having rather larger and much brighter- 
coloured flowers, being rich scarlet shaded orange with very 
conspicuous spots. Then there are Bourgsei and pallidifolium, 
both of which are very desirable. All these grand Lilies should 
be planted much more extensively than they ever have been yet; 
and indeed they will be when better known. So graceful in the 
border or the vase, they simply require to be brought more pro¬ 
minently before the plant-loving community to be vastly appre¬ 
ciated. They grow most freely in ordinary soil, and as regards 
price are getting within reach of all. 
L. Parryi , Watson.—A charming but comparatively rare Lily 
from California, occurring in San Gorgonio Pass and San Ber¬ 
nardino county. It grows from 3 to 6 feet high, with stout 
stems furnished with narrow lanceolate leaves, terminated with 
a corymb of flowers of a rich lemon colour sparingly dotted with 
tiny claret-coloured spots, appearing at the end of July and 
August. This is a very lovely species, growing very freely in 
the bog bed, evidently having a preference for peaty soil with 
leaf mould and sand, although some of my bulbs flowered right 
well in ordinary soil. 
L. sp ciosum, Thunb.—This is, perhaps, more frequently called 
L. lancifolium, which is, however, quite a distinct plant. Gardeners 
especially cling to this erroneous appellation, and by one name 
or the other it is very generally known and largely cultivated, so 
that description is unnecessary. There are a large number of 
varieties under cultivation, but a selection is quite sufficient for 
general purposes. The following are the best—album Krcetzeri, 
white; and rubrum punctatum, and macranthum shaded and 
spotted crimson. All are free bloomers and vigorous growers, 
enjoying a well-drained position with plenty of thoroughly rotten 
manure. They are among the most useful of all Lilies for pot 
culture, but rather late for outdoor cultivation unless planted in 
very sheltered positions, where they are likely to bloom earlier 
than is usual, and the flowers stand a chance of partial protection 
from early frosts. Of course the flowers coming in so late are 
most desirable when but little else is gay outside.—T. 
ECONOMY IN STOKING. 
I THINK the subject discussed by Mr. Inglis (page 370) is second to 
none in importance, and one which may be profitably considered, 
although much has been said and written about it already. Even with 
the best of boilers anyone can see that a considerable part of the heat is 
lost, and with the incomplete and badly designed heating apparatus the 
waste of fuel is often shameful. Boilers of all shapes and forms are made 
now, but 1 think the saddle and its near relations the cannon and the 
Cruciform, are still the best. The worst fault I find with them is that 
the furnace is generally so long and narrow that it is difficult to keep the 
neck as clear from ashes and clinkers as it ought to be, and a long 
boiler seems to me to be most effective. To obviate the difficulty I have 
just mentioned I have thought of the following plan, and would like to 
have the opinion of someone more able to judge than I am of its 
merits. 
This is to have a furnace door at each end of the boiler, and to feed 
from either end alternately, reversing the draught each time by means of 
danqers. When the fire needed fuel the last put on would be glowing 
red to burn the smoke from the new coal, and all the cleaning it would 
require would be to take out the clinker or ashe3 with the shovel. The 
door at the back, as I may call it, would come in for a good share of the 
heat, but the flame might be diverted before directly striking on it. I 
think the best door would be a heavy p’ate of iron working up and down 
like a window sash, and with a chain and weight hung over a pully to 
counterbalance it. I would have no ashpit doors, but large outside doors 
right over the front of the fireplace, with ventilators in the centre 
opposite the furnace doors, so that by using the ventilator in front of 
