Part 11

I. LILIES THAT FLOURISH IN ORDINARY GOOD GARDEN SOIL, OR BETTER STILL, IN STRONG LOAM THAT HAS BEEN DEEPLY DUG AND ENRICHED WITH WELL-DECAYED MANURE IN ADVANCE.

Alexandrae, 2 to 3 feet high, with pure white flowers, 6 to 8 inches across in July and August.

Batemanniae, 3 to 5 feet high, flowers rich apricot, 4 to 5 inches across.

Bulbiferum, 2 to 4 feet high, with erect crimson flowers spotted with brown; May and June.

Candidum, the well-known "Madonna Lily," 3 to 5 feet high, with sweet-scented pure-white flowers, 3 to 4 inches across, and ten to thirty on an erect truss in June. When subject to disease in any locality, it is almost useless attempting to grow this Lily. (See Plate 16, fig. 64).

Chalcedonicum, a fine "Turk's Cap" Lily, 2 to 3 feet high, with drooping bright scarlet flowers in July and August; there are several varieties, including maculatum, a spotted one.

Croceum, the "Orange or Saffron Lily," with somewhat cobwebby stems 3 to 6 feet high, and golden orange, funnel-shaped flowers, spotted with purple at the base; June and July. (See Plate 17, fig. 67).

Dalhansoni, a pretty hybrid between dalmaticum and Hansoni, about 5 feet high, with dark brownish-purple flowers in June and July.

Dauricum or davuricum grows 2 to 3 feet high, and has orange-scarlet flowers spotted with blackish-purple.

Henryi, 3 to 6 feet high (sometimes much taller) with jagged-surfaced orange-red flowers from July to September.

Marhan, a lovely hybrid between the white-flowered Martagon and Hansoni. It grows 4 to 5 feet high, and has clear orange-yellow flowers with red-brown streaks and spots.

Pomponium, a fine "Turk's Cap" species, 2 to 3 feet high, with drooping, bright-red, orange-yellow, flowers.

PLATE 24. LILIUM TIGRINUM (90) BRODIAEA BRIDGESI (91)

Pyrenaicum is closely related to pomponium, but is somewhat taller, and has bright-yellow flowers, blotched with crimson at the base (see Plate 18, fig. 71).

Rubellum, a beautiful species about 2 feet high, with bell-shaped rosy-pink flowers in June (see Plate 26, fig. 97).

Testaceum (or excelsum), a fine Lily, 5 to 6 feet high, with somewhat drooping, soft, buff-yellow or apricot-coloured flowers, dotted with orange-red.

Umbellatum. A number of Lilies are grouped under this name, being apparently hybrid varieties between croceum, davuricum, and elegans. The prevailing colours are orange, orange-red, and apricot, with darkly-spotted and unspotted forms.

Washingtonianum grows 3 to 6 feet high, and has sweet-scented, drooping, funnel-shaped flowers of a pure white tinged with lilac or purple. The soil should be particularly well-drained for this Californian Lily.

II. LILIES THAT FLOURISH IN SANDY LOAM, PEAT, AND LEAF-SOIL.

Auratum, a well-known Lily, 2 to 6 feet high, with ivory-white flowers, often 9 to 12 inches across, with a conspicuous yellow band down the centre, and deep purple blotches all over the inner surface. There are several varieties, some poor, some excellent, amongst the latter being platyphyllum with very large heavily-spotted flowers. There is a white unspotted form of this called virginale, closely related to which is Wittei, the flowers of which, however, are stained with yellow down the centre.

Browni, 2 to 4 feet high, with bell-shaped flowers, pure white with a central purple line.

Concolor, grows 1 to 3 feet high, and has bright scarlet flowers. There are several varieties, such as Buschianum and the dwarf pulchellum, scarlet, spotted with black; Coridion, bright yellow, spotted with red; Partheneion, orange-yellow, faintly spotted; and luteum, yellow, spotted with purple-red.

Elegans (or Thunbergianum), 1 to 2 feet high, with erect cup-shaped scarlet flowers, slightly spotted with purple at the base.

Giganteum, a gigantic Himalayan Lily, with stems from 6 to 10, and sometimes 14 feet high, furnished with large heart-shaped oval leaves. The flower stem is 1 to 2 feet long and has drooping funnel-shaped blossoms of a greenish-white, suffused with violet-purple in the throat. Unlike other Liliums, the large conical bulbs of this species are not buried deeply in the soil. They are sunk in the soil about one-third of their depth, and are usually planted in April or May. In the event of spring frosts, the bulbs should be protected with dry leaves or litter.

Hansoni, 3 to 4 feet high, flowers drooping, bright orange yellow, and heavily spotted with dark purple-brown (see Plate 25, fig. 93).

Humboldti (or Bloomerianum), 4 to 8 feet high, flowers orange-yellow, drooping, spotted with purple at the base; more conspicuous in the variety ocellatum, the yellow blossoms of which are tipped with crimson or purple.

Japonicum, 1 to 3 feet high, with sweet-scented pure white flowers faintly tinged with purple outside.

Kewense, a beautiful hybrid between Henryi and a variety of Browni; it grows about 6 feet high, and has buff-coloured flowers about 8 inches across, fading off to creamy white at the tips.