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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
January i>, 
Ruralisms 
NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
The New Philippine Lily. —One of 
the very few good tilings brought here 
from the Philippine Islands is the Benguet 
or white trumpet lily of Luzon, Lilium 
Phihppense. It was first collected in I87t, 
and introduced in a small way to the 
European trade, but though recognized 
as very desirable it did not attain com¬ 
mercial importance until the American oc¬ 
cupation of the Philippine Archipelago. 
Since then it has been imported in in¬ 
creasing numbers, and finds favor wbere- 
ever tried, among professional as well as 
amateur growers. If bulbs can be pro¬ 
cured in sufficient quantity this elegant 
species will go far to replace, for Easter 
blooming, the other white trumpet kinds 
so extensively grown. The Benguet lily 
is in reality a very distinct form of the 
variable, long-tubed Lilum longiflorum. 
tbe type of which grows naturally in 
China and Japan, and is therefore close- 
lv related to L. Harrisi, the very free- 
flowering variety popularly known as the 
Bermuda Easter lily. It has longer and 
more perfectly proportioned blooms, at 
times fully nine inches in length, borne 
on stiff but slender stems two feet high 
clothed with very narrow grasslike foli¬ 
age. Notwithstanding its almost tropical 
origin this lovely lily grows well under 
ordinary greenhouse conditions, blooming 
with great certainty in about 90 days after 
starting into growth. The flowers are 
not as numerous as with the best strains 
of Longiflorum and Harrisi, the largest 
obtainable bulbs seldom producing more 
than four blooms, but they, are so refined 
in their elegant tapering form, their 
waxen purity of color and richness of 
perfume, as fairly to outclass other white 
flowered forcing varieties. We do not 
know of any trials in the open ground, 
but in all probability it will not prove 
hardy in the North, although bulbs have 
been frozen during transportation without 
appreciable harm. 
Of Easy Culture. —Three ordinary 
commercial bulbs, potted up last January, 
bloomed beautifully in the Rural Grounds 
glasshouse in early April, and the bulbs, 
contrary to general experience with potted 
lilies, doubled in size bv the time growth 
ceased in September. They were grown 
singly in six-inch pots of rather poor 
loamy soil, but were provided with good 
drainage and fertilized with weak liquid 
manure every week after six inches of 
growth had been made until midsummer. 
After the stems died down in October 
the pots were allowed to dry out and in 
fact to lie outside, but protected from 
rain, until hard freezing weather in late 
November. The bulbs under this treat¬ 
ment came out firm and plump, and we 
expect them to bloom still better the com¬ 
ing season. Thus far the bulbs in com¬ 
merce appear free from the dreaded bac¬ 
terial disease that plays havoc with our 
regular Easter lilies. They were offered 
last season at $3 the dozen, and will 
probably rise in value as the demand 
increases. One present drawback is that 
the collected bulbs do not arrive in time 
for early potting. They are seldom ready 
for distribution before January, while 
Eermuda-grown Harrisi and Japan 
Longiflorum are usually to be had in 
early September but this difficulty is likely 
to be overcome as their culture on this 
continent is better understood. One im¬ 
porter is trying the experiment of grow¬ 
ing his stock in Porto Rico; with what 
success we have not learned. 
A Charming Wild Flower. —The nat¬ 
ural distribution of Lilium Phihppense 
appears to be pretty much confined to the 
plateau of Benguet on the Island of 
Luzon, the most northern of the Philip¬ 
pine islands, where it grows abundantly 
on grassy slopes in clay soil of very mod¬ 
erate fertility. The flowering season is 
August and September, the massive fra¬ 
grant trumpets being so numerous in lo¬ 
calities as to wbiten the hillsides. At this 
season there is much rain and humidity, 
but afterward a prolonged drought sets 
in, the tops die down and the bulbs be¬ 
come entirely dormant—a cultural hint 
that should be carefully followed by tbe 
grower. We found little difficulty in 
hybridizing the Benguet lily with good 
specimens of Harrisi and Longiflorum, 
and hope to bloom the results in due 
time. It appears to be a good seeder 
under ordinary cultural conditions, and 
is also quite free in forming bulhlets about 
the stem near the surface of the soil, so 
that it may be regarded as easy to pro¬ 
pagate. The Washington Department of 
Agriculture has also crossed this species 
with various forms of Longiflorum, and 
we understand is about to experiment 
with its outdoor culture in California and 
the South. Those of our readers who 
would care to grow a belated Easter lily 
of unique and elegant type might test 
this Philippine acquisition in their win¬ 
dow gardens and greenhouses. Bulbs will 
shortly be available, and will be offered 
by several prominent dealers. The main 
requirement, besides light and cool grow¬ 
ing temperature, seems to be thorough 
drainage, but plenty of water and weak 
soluble fertilizer until the blooms are 
perfected, then gradual tapering off to 
complete dryness. Plant the bulbs near 
the center of a five or six-inch pot of 
garden soil. Space above the bulb is 
needed for the fibrous stem roots that 
have so much to do with the development 
of good flowers. The earth should be 
well moistened after planting, and the 
pots are best kept in a moist and cool 
dark place until growth starts. 
The Bermuda Easter Lily. —The most 
popular lily forced for Easter blooming 
before disease made such disastrous in¬ 
roads into the cultivated stock, was un¬ 
doubtedly L. Harrisi, a strong growing 
cultural variety of L. longiflorum, first 
noticed in Bermuda. It is little more 
than 20 years since the first bulbs used 
for the purpose were brought to this 
country, and the demand soon became so 
great as to make lily-bulb growing one 
of the most profitable industries of that 
semi-tropical island. L. Harrisi blooms 
are less graceful than those of the typi¬ 
cal Longiflorum, but when healthy it is 
far more vigorous in growth, bears 
rapid forcing better and is extremely 
floriferous, strong bulbs often producing 
as many as six or eight large blooms. 
They can occasionally be had so early in 
the Fall that with good management mid¬ 
winter flowers are often possible. Its 
great value, however, is as a decorative 
plant for the Easter festival, when count¬ 
less numbers are sold at an average price 
of 25 cents per bud or bloom. Bacterial 
disease lias so invaded the Bermuda lily 
gardens that few stocks are sufficiently 
reliable to warrant the expense and risk 
of forcing and florists are again turning 
to Japan or Dutch grown Longiflorums. 
The Bermuda growers, in their haste to 
get the greatest possible return from tbe 
new industry, committed the horticultural 
sin of propagating from unripe and 
weakened bulbs from which the blooms 
and stems had been cut for shipment to 
the United States, and thus invited the 
ever-ready disease that has largely devas¬ 
tated their plantations. A few careful 
propagators appear to have maintained 
their bulbs in health and vigor, and have 
a ready market for their output, but there 
are not nearly enough reliable ones to 
fill the demand. The Japanese growers, 
on the other hand, are not as careful as 
they should be, as lilies are not held in 
honor among Orientals, being regarded 
as a vegetable and the bulbs are consumed 
in great quantities like onions. Disease 
it not so prevalent as in Bermuda, but 
the Japanese methods of culture, curing 
and packing are so imperfect that it ap¬ 
pears only a matter of time when their 
bulbs will cease to be trustworthy. Longi¬ 
florum and Harrisi do not seed with much 
freedom in this country but the gardener 
of the Department of Agriculture has 
shown that not only may seed be produced 
but blooming bulbs grown from seeds un¬ 
der greenhouse treatment in less than 18 
months. The most common and rapid 
methods of propagation are by bulb scales 
and stem cuttings, but this is thought to 
lower vitality, if repeated too often. Of 
course, commercial bulbs cannot profitably 
be grown under glass, and it remains for 
some experimenter favorably situated as 
to soil and climate to grow good stocks 
from seeds either cross-bred or self-fertil¬ 
ized. The lovely Madonna or Annuncia¬ 
tion lily, L. candidum, is perhaps the 
finest of all white kinds either in the 
garden or under glass, but under best 
conditions it is not easy to force into 
bloom by Easter, and bulbs are so gener¬ 
ally diseased all over the world that its 
glasshouse culture is now seldom at¬ 
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