February 4‘, 1905. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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Lilium philippcnsc. 
The Philippine Lily was first flowered in this country in 
187'i, and since then it seems to have been introduced once 
or twice, but to have made no permanent stay. Our 
friends in the United States have introduced a fresh lot of 
hulbs to that country. It was first discovered by a soldier, 
who communicated this information to Messrs. S. and J. 
Farquhar and Co., Boston, who have been so successful in its 
cultivation that it has been named Farquhar’s new Christmas 
Lily. 
An illustration of it appears in the American publication 
“ Gardening,” which gives a description of the method of culti¬ 
vation pursued. The bulbs were planted out on a bench in 
May, and by the beginning of July the plants were showing 
their flower buds. Towards the end of that month the first 
flowers opened, and it appears that since then the 
plants have continued growing, sending up fresh 
stems, and each in turn blooming. 
The importer of the bulbs says that when the bulbs 
were received from the Philippines they were not in 
a condition to be put on the market. Since planting 
them out in the way indicated above, the bulbs and 
the whole plant seem to have acquired fresh energy. 
The bulbs go on increasing and improving, and, 
judging from them, they think that it will not be 
necessaiy to renew stock every year as in the case 
of the Japanese L. longiflorum and its varieties. They 
do not suppose, however, that the plants will con¬ 
tinue growing and blooming always, but that a period 
of rest will be necessary for them as in the case of 
other Lilies. 
As far as our memory serves, we have seen this 
interesting Lily bloom twice in this country. The 
slender stem was about 2 ft. high, and terminated 
in a solitary white bloom, bent horizontally from the 
top of the stem. The flower was about 6 in. or 8 in. 
long, and white tinted with green at the base of the 
tube. The most striking feature of the flower was 
the great length and slender character of the tube, 
more so than in L. neilgherrense or L. wallichianum, 
which may be described as its nearest relatives. 
Neither of these Lilies is sufficiently hardy to live 
out of doors in this country, so that greenhouse 
treatment becomes necessary. 
It seems, however, that, the method of planting out 
the bulbs in the bed of a cool house would be a much 
better -way of growing them than attempting it in 
pots. This has been found suitable in the case of 
L. sulphureunr, L. nepalense, and various others 
which are planted out in the temperate house at 
Kew. We think they would be even more successful 
under those conditions providing the plants were 
fully exposed to light from the time they commence 
growing until they ripen off their foliage. In any 
case, we think that evergreens should not be allowed 
to obstruct the 1 light, which is essential, even if only 
diffused light. The soft tissues of the stem and the 
leaves very soon get affected and drawn when the light is 
obstructed from foliage of any kind while the growth is being 
made. 
As grown in this country the stems carry thirty to forty 
slender, linear leaves, 3 in. or 4 in. long, and of bright 
shining green. The plants first introduced to this country 
were collected by Gustave Wallis in the Island of Luzon, in the 
Philippines, at an elevation of 7,000 ft. The collection was 
made in 1871, so that the bulbs flowered here had possibly 
been in bad condition. In those olden times, the packing and 
transit of bulbs were not so well understood as at the present 
day, and consequently small bulbs were liable to be dried up 
in transit, having to cross the equator in coming northwards. 
It is significant to note that the cultivation given in America 
has been productive of three to four flowers on the stronger 
stems, so that it is possible in the near future, not only to 
grow this Lily successfully, but to make it a rival for the 
better-known L. longiflorum and its fine varieties. Some bulbs 
also give rise to more than one stem at a time. The flowers 
are deliciously scented, resembling a Gardenia, though not so 
powerful, and that should be an incentive to again try the 
cultivation of the Philippine Lily in this country. 
Crotalaria capensis. 
Over 200 species of Crotalaria are known to botanists, and 
are scattered over all parts of the world, in tropical and also 
moderately warm parts of it. That under notice comes from 
Cape Colony, and flourishes under cool greenhouse treatment. 
The wide dispersal of the species would indicate great antiquity 
on the part of the genus as a whole. During the early half of 
Ckotol veia capensis. 
the nineteenth century a large number of them were introduced 
to cultivation at a time when hard-wooded greenhouse plants 
got much more attention than they do at the present day. A 
few of them were even introduced in the early part of the eigh¬ 
teenth century, and a few towards the end of it. 
The species under notice is of upright bushy habit, and when 
not in flower closely resembles a Cytisus. The leaves are made 
up of three obovate leaflets moderately dense in their arrange¬ 
ment upon the twiggy stems. The main branches, and also the 
side shoots, terminate in a short raceme of white Pea-shaped 
flowers, thus completing the resemblance to Cytisus. Our 
photograph was taken in the Royal Gardens, Kew, late in 
summer, about, which time the plant bloomed, planted out in 
a bed of the temperate house, where it gets no special treat¬ 
ment. There can be no doubt that this plant is as amenable 
to cultivation in pots as other dwarf shrubs of a similar 
character. 
