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LILIES 
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In ordering Lilies from this list, customers should 
bear in mind that for the most part my bulbs are 
taken direct from the beds and, with the use of 
sphagnum moss, can be sent without the usual loss 
of shrinking of outside scales, so common in store 
bulbs. They are as fresh when received as when 
taken from the bed and usually without the loss of 
roots, which seldom come with store bulbs. I have 
found this same sphagnum moss, which I use in 
packing the bulbs, to be very beneficial to some of 
them, and we use loads of it every year under and 
around the bulbs when planting. I now use it under 
all my auratums, testaceums, candidums, Ilansoni, 
(4rayi, and some of the speciosums, especially 
album and rubrum. For the auratum I have found 
it the best thing 1 have ever tried. 
Many of these Lilies may be set by the middle of 
