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Culture of Californian Lilies. 
Lilies of the Washingtonianum and Hnmboldtii groups should have 
a good deep soil with good drainage, they do better in partial shade as 
among shrubs or ferns. Plant at least six inches deep. 
The lilies of the pardalinum group are very easily grown, in any 
good garden soil. A cooler place with a little shade, like a shrubbery 
bed, a fern bed or a stream side suits them still better and they make a 
great growth. The parvums are a little more delicate, and a little leaf 
mold or peaty soil will insure the finest growth. 
The rhododendron bed is the ideal situation for all of our lilies. 
General Notes. 
Plant earljr. October is none to early. 
Don’t water continually. Soak up occasionally and leave alone as 
long as soil is barely moist. 
Don’t use coarse, rank manure, either barnyard or other. 
Don t force too much. The longer the growing season the better. 
Don’t water after blooming—dry off, and if they cannot be kept dry, 
take up and lay away in a dry place. 
Don’t think because California is a warm country that the winter 
climate is hot. The ground is often frozen stiff for a week at a time 
where these bulbs are native, and heat is to be avoided until the time 
of blooming. It will not hurt them if the leaves are occasionally 
frozen stiff. 
