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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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illustration of Lilium Glehni at fig. 1 hasbeen prepared from a plant which I found giow-ing on the railway eiul.:mkment near Asahigawa,in the centre of Hokkaido (Tezo), on July 17,190-1. In a paper by Dr. K. Miyabe and the Rev. JohnBatchelor in the Transactions of the Asiatic Societyof Japan, vol. xxi., p. 2ol, this plant is said to beknown to the Ainos as Umbairo, and to be usedextensively for food. The bulbs are washed,pounded in a mortar, and the finer part of the rarely cultivated in Japan. These were the onlyLilies 1 saw in the island of Hokkaido, thoughL. dahuricum is also common on sandy beaches andriver banks in some localities. Lilies do not seem to be by any means socommon or generally distributed in Japan as Ihad supposed. The only species I saw growingwild were L. auratum, L. tigrinum, and L. cordi-folium, of which L. Glehni appears to me to behardly more than a northern variety, and aslender form of tigriniim, which I take to beL. Maximowiczii. The bulbs of tigrinum are
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FlO. 1.—LILIUJI GLEHNI, FROM YEZO. •^<S^^y flour (called ** imp ), after drying, is made intogruel, with millet or rice. The coarser part isboiled, pounded, and when rotten made into largecakes. The plants as I saw them were usuallyi to 5 feet high, with six to eight flowers or less,but the specimen figured was exceptionally fine,and had twenty-four flowers of a pale-yellow withreddish streaks. ;.: In the same district, on wooded slopes, andgenerally in deej) shade, I found Liliumavenaceum, which is a much handsomer plant,with two to eight flowers on a stem, like thoseof a small Tiger Lily ; but the bulbs are sofragile and brittle that they are very difficult tocollect, and, though also eaten by the Ainos, are• i. Uleliiii, Schmidt, Kefc. Amur, 187. commonly used as food, and when baked or boiledare not at all bad eating with a little salt andbutter. I was rather disappointed with the wild flowersof Japan on the whole. There are some fiueterres-trial Orchids which are difficugardenerschronic337lond

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