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Considering The Lilies 
(Continued from page 52) 
Lilies generally prefer a light, rich 
soil, but some will grow where these 
ideal conditions do not prevail. The 
best to choose for really heavy soil 
would be tigrinurn, splendens, the 
native Canadense, or the also native 
superbunt, called the American 
Turk’s cap. This last is pronounced 
the very best tall red Turk’s cap 
there is; it is one of the orange-reds. 
Be careful not to confuse it with the 
Japanese L. speciosum. 
The other native is orange and red 
with dark spots, and there is a yel¬ 
low form known as var. flavurn or 
luteum. Any or all of these will 
succeed in fairly heavy soil, but for 
the rest of the family light and sandy 
earth is preferable. They will grow 
in most good garden soils, provided 
there is perfect drainage. This is ab¬ 
solutely essential. 
Consider the character of a lily 
bulb for a moment, and you will 
see why. Composed of layer after 
layer of overlapping scales, is there 
anything less calculated to resist the 
ravages of moisture? Most complete 
drainage is easily seen to be almost 
their greatest necessity, and lack of 
it their greatest handicap. And as 
heavy soils do not dry out as quick¬ 
ly as sandy soils, nor drain as thor¬ 
oughly after heavy rains, they natu¬ 
rally do not suit lilies. Some of the 
Japanese species, indeed, cannot en¬ 
dure a particle of moisture entering 
the bulb; and the Japanese garden¬ 
ers have learned to plant these on 
their sides to ensure keeping their 
hearts perfectly free from it. 
Extremely susceptible to heat, also, 
are lily bulbs, so they must not only 
go into well drained earth, hut deep 
into it. If they can go where the 
sun will not strike during the heat 
of summer, so much the better. 
Thus it is that in the shrubbery bor¬ 
der they do the best, usually, for 
here the earth above them is shaded 
and cool, though the stalks and 
leaves and flowers are not deprived 
of sun. This is what they like best: 
sun at their tops, but shadow at their 
feet. 
All of the Japanese species send 
out roots above the bulb, along the 
stalk when this has grown. To give 
these proper protection and sufficient 
depth to ensure their not drying out, 
the bulbs must be set very much 
deeper than those of other species. 
Ten inches below the surface of the 
ground is not a bit too much, which 
means that a hole 1' deep should be 
dug for every bulb. Make its diam¬ 
eter 1)4" or 2" more than the diam¬ 
eter of the bulb, and put 1" of clean 
sand in the bottom of it. Set the 
bulb on this, sift more sand around 
it to fill the space and cover it to a 
depth of 1". Then put in the earth. 
This not only ensures perfect 
drainage, but also shields the bulb 
from direct contact with anything in¬ 
jurious either above or at the side of 
it. Manure should never touch a 
lily bulb—nor any kind of bulb, for 
that matter—yet lilies need plenty of 
very rich feeding. When they are 
bedded in sand as described, their 
roots reach out and get nourishment 
through the leaching down of the 
moisture that has passed through the 
manured soil above them. Thus 
they are properly enriched, while in 
no danger of being injured. 
Bulbs of the European and native 
species need not go more than 6" be¬ 
low the surface of the ground, for 
these do not produce the lateral 
roots along their stalks above the 
bulb. Otherwise it is well to plant 
them just the same, as far as sand 
and precautions against contact with 
manure are concerned, as the Jap¬ 
anese species. 
All lilies should be mulched in the 
fall, after the top growth is dead, 
with strawy manure or autumn 
leaves. If you use the latter, let the 
lower layer of them remain each sea¬ 
son. No fertilizer is more valuable 
than the leaf mold thus accumulated 
above the bulbs, to be carried down 
to their roots in the course of time, 
rich in plant food. 
The Easy-to-Grow Lilies 
Yellow—- 
Lilium elegans, alutaceum —Japan. 
coiicolor, parthencion — 
China. 
testaceum (Nankeen lily) 
—Probably Europe. 
Canadense, flavurn —North 
America. 
Orange— 
Lilium elegans, fulgens —Japan. 
Henryi —Japan. 
Orange-red—- 
Lilium elegans, fulgens —Japan. 
tigrinurn, splendens —Japan 
and China. 
Scarlet— 
Lilium elegans, atrosanguineum — 
Japan. 
concolor —China. 
tenuifolia (Siberian coral 
lily)—Siberia. 
“ superbum (American Turk’s 
cap)—North America. 
“ Chalcedonicum —Greece. 
Yellow and red— 
Lilium elegans, bicolor —Japan. 
Pink—- 
Lilium speciosum —Japan. 
Japonicum —Japan. 
Rose-red— 
Lilium speciosum, rubrum —Japan. 
Burgundy-red—- 
Lilium Brownii —Japan. 
White— 
Lilium longiflorum (Easter lily) — 
Japan, China, Formosa. 
candidum (Madonna lily) 
-—Southern Europe. 
aurat.um (Gold banded) — 
Japan. 
Constructing The Private Garage 
(Continued from page 25) 
When the turntable is omitted, a pit 
can be constructed in the floor to 
enable working beneath the car, but 
this is undesirable generally because 
it cuts into the floor and is dangerous 
when the car is not over it. Lots of 
built-in shelves, cupboards, drawers, 
etc., lighten the work and give good 
storage space. They add little to the 
cost compared witli their value. 
Drainage is highly important, for 
here again the highly inflammable na¬ 
ture of gasoline and oil comes in. In 
the absence of a turntable the floor 
should slope at least \ l / 2 " in the size 
previously mentioned, toward the 
center from all sides. In the outlet 
should he a safety trap to prevent the 
gasoline getting into the sewer. With 
the many forms of turntable, the 
center of the table acts as the drain 
hole. 
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