HARDY LILIES 
FOR AMERICAN GARDENS! 
Within the entire range of summer flowers, 
none are more beautiful than the hardy lilies. 
What more worthy successors to the spring 
beauty of tulips can you wish to coax into flower 
in your garden, to enhance its beauty from early 
in June right up to the Fall. 
Lilies are wonderfully effective and striking yet 
expuisitely graceful in the garden picture and 
many varieties do not present any difficulty in 
growing, if you are ready to take a little trouble 
and give them surroudings which coincide to some 
extent with their natural habitat. 
Lilies love a spot where the surface soil, and 
later the base of their stems is kept cool by sur- 
rounding shrubs, a hedge, evergreens or plants in 
the herbaceous border. The soil should be abso- 
lutely porous ensuring perfect drainage, so that 
they run no risk of getting wet feet. Do not let 
fresh stable manure touch the bulbs. Better give 
a top dressing of well decayed cow manure or 
bonemeal after planting, which can drain in with 
succeeding rains. 
Ensure perfect drainage by working into the 
soil, under the bulbs, a good laver of say 6 to & 
inches coarse coal ashes. Mix the soil in. which 
they are to grow out of equal parts of leafmold, 
peat and coarse sand. Better still, place the bulbs 
on a cushion of sharp sand, and surround the 
whole bulb by it, to prevent decay. This will 
cause some extra work at the outset, but you will 
be amply repaid for it, for do not forget, that once 
they have been planted, lilies should not be dis- 
turbed for years, and will improve their flowering 
capacity when they are left to bloom in the same 
spot. 
LILIUM DAVIDI (syn. Sutchuenense) 
Lilies do not like to be crowded, but roots of nearby growing plants loosen the soil, and lilies like to work 
in their roots between the roots of nearby plants. 
In addition accompanying plants act as a foil to their flowers and set them off to better effect. 
Another important factor is to plant sufficiently deep. Among Lilies are quite a few varieties, which in 
addition to the roots, issueing from the base of the bulb, send forth from the stem, just above the top of 
the bulb, quite a mob of additional roots. They are called stem rooting and these roots should not be dama- 
ged by frost or careless digging. Moreover, if you yearly feed these roots with a layer of well decayed cow 
manure or bonemeal you will greatly assist these stem roots in finding the necessary food. 
Therefore we give the depth at which to plant with each variety. Our collection contains varieties pre- 
senting no or little difficulty in growing and given the care as outlined should present no difficulties in 
American Gardens. 
Fall planting is highly preferable and we can deliver these bulbs before the end of November. If you 
might fear frost will set in before the bulbs arrive, have the spots where you intend to plant your lilies 
prepared, and covered with reeds, dry leaves, course grass or any other material. This will keep the frost 
out and you may plant your bulbs on arrival, at once replacing the cover. The bulbs will take no harm 
from frost, the more so as they will be planted sufficiently deep. 
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