Beautiful Garden Silies 
So that you may succeed with these inspiring plants and to obviate disappointments, we have selected, 
after many years of experimenting and careful study, from a host of varieties, the limited few that 
succeed in American gardens under ordinary care, when planted in the spring. 
There are many other exquisite kinds with which we succeed, but they should only be planted in the 
autumn. They will be offered in our fall edition of “Beauty From Bulbs.” 
AURATUM. There is a lingering charm about the garden 
in August. One feels the sense of departing beauty and 
hurries to enjoy what color and fragrance kind Summer 
has left in her flight. One of the best of all her legacies is 
“Auratum,” the golden-rayed lily of Japan, which was 
discovered on the slopes of snow-capped Fujiyama, grow- 
ing wild and untouched in all the glory of its beauty. 
This is one of the noblest of all lilies, favoring a cool, 
thin woodland where it is damp at the roots. Not a wood- 
land plant in the sense that it grows in the thick of the 
forests, but it flourishes on the fringes of the woods, in 
glades and clearings, always among vegetation, which, 
while screening the lower part of the stem and keeping 
the ground cool, leaves the sun free to play on the blooms. 
Given the necessary conditions of shelter (for exposure 
to cold wind invites disease) and of half shade, it can be 
grown in well-prepared holes in other soils. 
These holes may be 4 to 6 feet deep, filled with a mix- 
ture of well-drained peat, and sharp sand, or sandy loam, 

AURATUM MACRANTHUM (Platyphyllum) This is the 
robust growing form; the stem is stout and attains a con- 
siderable height, the leaves are broad; enormous flowers, 
white, richly spotted yellow. Undoubtedly the choicest of 
all, and in our opinion, superior to the type. 
Through our connections with the American Govern- 
ment in control in Japan we have been successful in secur- 
ing the same special strain of bulbs that we handled prior 
to the war. They are all especially selected for us and are 
free from disease. 
Some extra JUMBO size bulbs are available at very spe- 
cial prices: 
Mammoth Size 14 to 20 inches in circumference (Very 
Limited) $2.10 each, $20.00 for 10. 
Jumbo Size 13 to 15 inches in circumference (Limited ) 
$1.75 each, $17.00 for 10. 
Extra Large Size 11 to 13 inches in circumference $1.25 
each, $10.00 for 10; $97.50 per 100. 
Large Size 10 to 11 inches in circumference $1.00 each, 
$9.00 for 10; $87.50 per 100. 
Illustration of Scheepers’ Auratum 
Bulbs are shown on page 27 
(Color illustration page 25) 
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leaf mold and rubbish-heap burnings, with some well- 
rotted manure. Another excellent place to grow these lilies 
is a rhododendron or azalea bed, or any other bed where 
the soil is cool and peaty, and where the young growths 
will be protected by something bushy. 
Auratum is one of the lilies that, in addition to the roots 
that issue from the bulb, has other roots at the base of 
the stem. It should, therefore, be planted deeply, as much 
as 12 inches, in order to insure that the upper rooting 
system, which nourishes the growing stem, should be well 
under ground. 
In addition to deep planting, a surface mulching of 
well-rotted manure to keep the ground cool and give nutri- 
ment, and frequent watering, both to supply moisture to 
the soil and to wash in the goodness of the mulch, are 
desirable for the welfare of the plants. Never plant in 
soil containing lime. A veritable “Peacock among Lilies” 
and very robust. Illustration, page 25. We offer imported 
Korean grown bulbs only. 


CENTIFOLIUM. Found in a cabbage garden by the late 
Mr. Reginald Farrer, in his first expedition to China. In 
general appearance it resembles a huge Lilium Sulphureum 
or Brownii, with long tubular white flowers, colored and 
streaked externally with brown and flushed internally with 
yellow at the base of the trumpet. This is a giant among 
lilies, and has proved quite hardy. Plant 8 inches deep; 
July-flowering. Illustration, page 25. Extra selected jumbo 
bulbs, $1.75 each; $16.00 for 10. Smaller, strong-flowering 
bulbs, $1.25 each; $11.00 for 10. 
ELEGANS IN VARIETY. (Thunbergianum) The number of 
forms and varieties is legion, varying in color from pale 
lemon-yellow to rich orange-brown, embracing various 
tints of orange to almost red and from soft apricot to ap- 
proaching crimson; varying also in flowering season. A 
copious planting of these in mixture through a colony of 
funkia or white heuchera produces a most effective dis- 
play, continuous for a considerable period. Stem-roots; 
plant in fall or early spring, 8 or 9 inches deep, in sunny 
situation; June-July flowering. These lilies are so fre- 
quently mixed in their colors that we have decided to offer 
them in mixed varieties. Extra heavy bulbs. $5.75 for 10; 
$55.00 per 100. 
