12 WILLIAM N. CRAIG, WEYMOUTH 
ROSES IN POTS FOR LATE PLANTINGS 
We can supply a good selection of Roses in pots all 
first quality stock for late plantings. Bare root plants 
from the field are much to be preferred for planting 
until late May. 
HARDY LILIUMS 
These are one of my leading Specialties, and a large 
proportion of those offered are home grown bulbs. 
The coming of Lilium regale paved the way for a 
tremendously increased interest in Lilies. Whereas 
formerly but a limited number of varieties were 
listed or grown, the demand today is for a very much 
wider assortment, embracing practically all Lilies 
which will grow in North America. The bulb rooting 
varieties like Candidum and Testaceum should be 
planted quite shallow, 2-3 inches suffices, while such 
stem rooters as regale, speciosum, auratum, Henryi, 
Formosanum, Browni, and others should be covered 
8-12 inches. All Lilies should be planted where their 
feet will be dry in winter, fresh manure must never 
be used in the soil at planting time, if very old and 
well decayed it is all right, all lilies love leaf mold 
and they seem to root with avidity in peat moss, sand 
is good for all of them and at planting time a cushion 
should be placed for each bulb to rest on scattering 
more above them. 
Fall is a vastly better season than spring for plant- 
ing all varieties of hardy Liliums and it is unfortunate 
that so many firms feature them even more in spring 
than fall. No European varieties will amount to very 
much if spring planted and the same holds true of 
every North American variety but some of the 
Asiatic species do moderately well as do the regale 
hybrids. We are omitting from this list many va- 
rieties which will be found in our fall catalogue. 
The earlier all lilies are planted in spring the better, 
waiting for warm weather is entirely wrong, late 
March and through April is best, only a few varieties 
will do much if planted later. For real success with 
Lilies start planting candidum in late August and 
continue with other varieties until ground freezes up 
tight. 
A number of important varieties of lilies, for which 
in the past we have depended on importations from 
Japan, are now in very short supply or entirely un- 
procurable. All these varieties can and will (it is 
hoped) be entirely raised in America, it will take time 
as some of them are of slow propagation, meanwhile 
we can get along without them very well. 
List of Liliums which May Be Planted in 
Early Spring 
AMABILE. A charming stem rooting variety bloom- 
ing in mid-June and growing 18-24 inches high. 
Flowers bright red spotted black. Cover 4 inches. 
30 cents each, $3.00 doz. 
AURATUM. We will have no bulbs of any form of 
auratum for spring delivery but will have a mod- 
erate supply in late October. 
