Ll lium AURATUM 
r Golden Day Lily 
(Hemerocallis Aurantiaca Major) 
Lilium Tenuifolium 
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Garden Lilies 
Autumn is the best time for 
planting the bulbs* 
T HE Lily is a favorite flower every¬ 
where. Lilium candklum does best 
when planted in August or September. 
This variety is valuable for forcing, and is 
used extensively for this purpose. The 
method is to plant the bulbs in six-inch 
pots, barely covering them with soil, then 
plunge them in the garden in a warm, 
sheltered place, and let them remain there 
until the pots are well filled with roots, 
after which they may be removed to the 
house or conservatory, where they will 
flower in eight or ten weeks. 
After long experience, the varieties named in the following list are offered as forming the best 
collection of hardy Lilies that can be advised for garden culture. It not only embraces the most 
beautiful, but there is not one in the list difficult of culture, or that may be likely to disappoint the 
planter, if we except the Auratum, which sometimes proves a little treacherous; all the others can 
be easily raised, and most of them will improve if left undisturbed a number of years. In forcing 
L. Harrisii or L. Japonicum longiflorum, plant them in six-inch pots half-filled with a rich soil, sink 
the bulbs, leaving just the tips exposed. After the bulb has thrown its stem above the top of the pot, 
fill the pot with rich soil composed mostly of well-rotted cow manure, as these bulbs throw out root¬ 
lets from the stem of the bulb. 
Auratum. The magnificent gold-banded each noz. 
Lily of Japan ; freely spotted with crimson 
red; sweet-scented. Blooms about July 
15th. Extra large bulbs. 20 $2 00 
Canadense. Our native Lily ; flowers droop¬ 
ing, delicate scarlet-yellow throat, spotted 
black. Blooms July 10th. 
Candidum. Common white garden lily; 
hardy, free bloomer, fragrant. 15 1 
Elegans, Best Red. Light red. 15 1 
Elegans atrosanguineum. Blood-red ... 20 2 
The above three varieties bloom about yuly 1st. 
16 
15 1 25 
Elegans Batmanniae. A beautiful Japanese each noz. 
variety; flowers upright, oT clear apricot- 
yellow ; strong and hardy ; should have a 
place in every garden. Blooms about July 
J 5th. 15 1 25 
Elegans Incomparable. Deep crimson, 
slightly spotted with black. 15 1 50 
Elegans Wallacei. Flowers rich vermil- 
lion-orange, spotted with maroon. Blooms 
in the autumn. Fine. 20 2 00 
Humboldtii. Orange, spotted claret. Extra 
fine. Blooms July 15th. 30 3 00 
