Garden Cilie$ 
Autumn is the best time for planting- 
the bulbs* 
T HE Lily is a favorite flower everywhere. 
Li Hum candidum does best when planted 
in August or September. This variety is valuable 
for forcing, and is used extensively for this pur¬ 
pose. 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 
j 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-mch 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 rootlets from the stem above the bulb. 
Lilium auratum. The magnificent gold-banded each doz 
Lily of Japan ; freely spotted with crimson 
red; sweet-scented. Blooms about July 15th 
Extra large bulbs. 25 £2 50 
Batmannias. A beautiful Japanese variety; 
flowers upright, of clear apricot yellow ; strong 
and hardy ; should have a place in every gar¬ 
den. Blooms about July 15th. 20 2 00 
Canadense. Our native Lily; flowers drooping, 
delicate scarlet, yellow throat, spotted black. 
Blooms July 10th. 15 1 25 
Candidum. Common white garden Lily; hardy, 
free bloomer, fragrant . 
Elegans. Best light red . 
Elegans atrosanguineum. Blood Red . . . 
The above three varieties bloom about July 1st. 
Hansoni. A rare early-flowering species of a 
beautiful yellow color, petals very thick, 
dotted with purple. One of the handsomest 
varieties. Blooms second week in June . . . 
Humboldtii. Orange, spotted claret. Extra 
fine. Blooms July 15th . 
each uoz 
$1 5° 
10 1 50 
15 1 00 
75 7 50 
30 3 00 
