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denses; delicate tenuifoliums; tall, stately superbums; ruby 
philadelphicums, and tawny Henryis all set seed to pollen of 
their own kind in my own garden. As soon as the seed ripens, 
plant in flats filled with soil consisting of one third sand and two 
thirds top soil, preferably from the woods. The first year, some 
of the Lilies will not show any top growth, but form tiny bulblets 
under the surface. 
The first fall after planting transplant; some will bloom the 
second summer and practically all the third. Keep the flats in a 
coldframe covered with a mulch of leaves for the winter, and for 
the summer in a shady frame under a tree, and have them kept 
moist. 
Certain sorts can be propagated by bulbils which grow in the 
axils of the leaves. These can be planted in the same way as 
seeds. Propagation is also done by planting the bulb scales and 
by offsets which is a good way to grow the varieties that set 
seed not freely, if at all, and these produce flowers earlier than 
plants from seeds. From a start of a few bulbs one can in time 
have hundreds of Lilies. 
The more you work with flowers the more you see how alike 
all living things are. Give a child a healthy body to begin 
with, plenty of air and sunshine, sleep and play, and loving care, 
and he will become a fine specimen of mankind. The same ap¬ 
plies to the Lilies. Start with a healthy stock; give them 
drainage, plenty of air, 
sunshine; loving care 
through watering, culti¬ 
vating, and mulching; 
proper food in the way of 
manure, “water, and fer¬ 
tilizer. After the bulbs 
are once established do 
not disturb them except 
where they have multi¬ 
plied to such an extent 
as to become crowded. 
chance to spread. Another disease of the bulbs is caused by the 
fungus Rhizopus necans which can largely be avoided by plant¬ 
ing clean stock. Burn the bulbs attacked with this. 
The Hybridizer Flinging His Challenge to Nature 
I S IT possible that our American Lilies are related to the 
Chinese varieties separated in the past by glaciers and oceans? 
Most likely this is the fact, and further experimentation will un¬ 
doubtedly show that many will cross, thus revealing an unsus- 
GOLD-BANDED LILY OF 
JAPAN 
From its home on the slopes of 
Fujiyama the lovely Lilium 
auratum has come into American 
gardens; it belongs to the lime- 
hating group and thrives best in 
soil rich in vegetable matter 
LILIUM ELEGANS 
Bearing a very large flower in pro¬ 
portion to its stem, variable in 
color, takes kindly to deep plant¬ 
ing as it roots from the stem 
This is especially true for 
tigrinum, speciosum, and cro- 
ceum. Do not let fresh ma¬ 
nure touch any of them; 
and keep lime away from 
some of them and you will 
have beautiful, vigorous flow¬ 
ers to gladden your heart. 
[See accompanying article on 
“ Soils that Lilies Like.”— Ed.] 
Before planting the bulbs it is a good plan to dust them with 
flowers of sulphur. If the dread lily disease (Botrytis cinerea) 
attacks them, one way to cure them, it is said, is to lift the bulbs 
and set indoors in a sunny place for several weeks and the 
chances are the sun will prove healing. The safest way is to de¬ 
stroy all parts of the plant as soon as the characteristic whitish 
grey patches show on the leaves and before the disease has had a 
BULB-ROOTING AND STEM-ROOTING TYPES 
The Madonna Lily (Lilium candidum) roots from the bulb 
(above left) while the Orange Lily (Lilium croceum) roots 
from the stem (above right) (Reprint from plates 250, 256 
“Addisonia,” courtesy New York Botanical Garden) 
pected relationship. So far amongst the Lilies reputed to be 
hybrids are Burbanki, testaceum, kewense, Marhan, Dalhansoni, 
and Parkmanni. Dr. A. B. Stout of the New York Botanical 
Garden is working on Lilies and has secured several crosses. He 
has found that the following set seed to their own kind of pollen: 
longiflorum, canadense, tenuifolium, croceum, Humboldti, war- 
leyense, washingtonianum purpureum, regale, speciosum, 
Henryi, elegans, Bloomerianum, auratum, parvum, da- 
huricum Kelloggi, candidum, philadelphicum. The last 
seven only sparsely. He maintains that many Lilies 
often set seed to pollen of related or even different 
species when they do not produce seed to pollen of 
their own kind. Much hybridizing can be done by 
amateurs in their gardens as the simple structure 
of the Lilies makes it very easy to handle them. Dr. 
Stout is making a special study in seed-production in 
Lilies, and he has thousands of seedlings. He is the first 
in America to study scientifically Lilies for fertility. In 
crossing Lilies, the hybridizer is flinging a challenge to 
nature in trying to create 
something lovelier than al¬ 
ready exists. The method 
is to cross some of the more 
delicate kinds with the 
hardier sorts, with a view to 
keeping the finest character¬ 
istics of both; for example, 
to get the large leaves, 
height, and bluish coloring 
of the Indian Lilies and the 
rosy coloring of rubellum, 
Krameri, and washington¬ 
ianum in some hardier 
strain. 
LILIUM KELLOGGI 
One of the vivacious Martagon 
family; flowers pink, bulb¬ 
rooting; flourishes in a loose 
gravelly soil with plenty of leaf 
mould 
