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Make other sowings of Peas and Dwarf Kidney Beans about the 8th and 20th 
of the month, the latter date being about the time when the last sowings for the 
season are to be made. Of Peas, Ne Plus Ultra may be sown at the former date, 
and Carter’s First Crop at the latter. If the ground is dry, as it generally is, it 
will be necessary to well water the seeds in the drills when sown.— William 
Earley, Valentines. 
GARDEN LILIES.— Chapter VIII. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION OP LILIUM CANADENSE. 
’HE accompanying illustration of Lilium canadense was prepared from some 
specimens grown by G. F. Wilson, Esq., in his garden at Weybridge, and 
exhibited by him at South Kensington in the summer of 1874. It shows 
this to be a very pretty small-growing species, somewhat variable in char¬ 
acter ; in fact, on this occasion Mr. Wilson produced three forms, namely, L. 
canadense rubrum , rubro-favum , and fiavum. It is the two first-mentioned of 
these varieties that are represented in our Plate. 
Our last chapter was devoted to L. Washingtonianuni and 
purpureum , plants which some botanists consider to be varieties 
of the same species, but which horticulturists affirm to be 
thoroughly distinct types of the Eulirion group. We now pass 
on from them to the Martagon group. 
16. Lilium canadense ( Botanical Magazine , tt. 800, 858). 
—A very pretty and slender-habited Lily, with erect, terete, 
smooth stems, growing from 1 ft. 6 in. to 3 ft. high. The leaves 
grow in whorls which are 2 in. or 3 in. apart, each whorl con¬ 
sisting of several oblanceolate acute spreading leaves, of a pale 
but bright green colour, the lower ones 2 in. to 4 in. long ; 
the upper whorls just beneath the flowers are sometimes broken 
up, and a few scattered leaves occur. The flowers vary from 
one to six on the stem, three or four being a usual number on 
fairly vigorous examples ; they spring from the upper whorl of 
leaves, and are pendulous on pedicels 2 in. to 3 in. long. The 
perianth is campanulate, from 2 in. to 2% in. deep, the divisions spreading for 
about half their length, lanceolate, and sharply pointed ; it varies in colour in 
the different forms, being either yellow, orange-yellow, or red, always, how¬ 
ever, marked with copious dark red spots towards the base ; Mr. Baker mentions 
that they are pubescent at the tip, not down the back, and that they are not 
papillose or pubescent down the groove. The stamens are shorter than the 
perianth, with orange-red anthers 4 in. to 6 in. long; the style is 1J in. long, 
about equalling the stamens. The flowers are produced at the end of June and 
the beginning of July. 
The accompanying plate shows the variety rubrum , which is of a bright red 
colour, with the basal portion thickly dotted with dark red ; and rubro-flavir.n, which 
has an orange-red ground-colour, and is intermediate between the other two. The 
Lilium canadense. 
