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WILLIAM N. CRAIG, WEYMOUTH 
Plant candidum only IV 2 —2 inches deep, 
testaceum and chalcedonicum not over 3 
inches. All varieties making- roots only from 
below the bulbs should be planted shallow. 
Stem rooters like regale, auratum, speciosum, 
Henryi, sulphureum, Sargentiae, and Will- 
mottiae require covering 8 inches and even 
more is better should soil be very light. 
European varieties like candidum, chalce¬ 
donicum, monadelphum, martagon, testaceum 
and Pyrenaicum like a well sweetened soil 
while the Asiatic varieties either prefer one 
which is alkaline or neutral. Regale seems to 
grow equally well in an acidy as a sweet soil. 
Some varieties like candidum, testaceum, 
chalcedonicum, martagon, Japonicum and ru- 
bellum are best laid on their sides at planting 
time, all should be bedded in sand and covered 
with it before being filled in. 
Very rententive soils may be improved by 
adding peat moss, sharp sand and fine coal 
ashes. As a summer mulch peat moss is ex¬ 
cellent, but do not use it for the European 
varieties. Where the more tender and doubt¬ 
ful varieties are being tried it will assist very 
much to lay strips of tar paper over the 
clumps to shed water in winter. 
Lilies are effective in perennial borders, but 
when planted there should not go too near 
husky growing plants, when mulching beds 
with manure avoid scattering it over the 
Lilies. In beds or borders by themselves with 
a background of evergreen or not too robust 
deciduous shrubs Lilies do remarkably well, a 
groundwork of violas, or Nepeta Mussini may 
be used if desired. In rhododendron or azalea 
beds auratum, superbum, pardalinum, Cana- 
dense, Henryi and Grayi do well but do not 
use any of the large bulb rooting varieties. 
For the wild garden our native varieties like 
Philadelphicum, Grayi, Canadense, superbum 
and Carolinianum are good, so is tigrinum, the 
elegans and umbellatum varieties, and cro- 
ceum. For rock garden plantings some of the 
best varieties are tenuifolium, Golden Gleam, 
