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THE CHOICEST LILIES.
LILIUM SPECIOSUM MELPOMENE
L. AURATUM
L. TENUIFOLIUM
L. LONGIFLORUM
Lilium auratum, the magnificent gold banded Lily of Japan, freely spotted
with crimson red ; sweet scented. Extra large bulbs. Blooms about July
15th. Price each, 20 cents ; dozen, $2.00.
Batemani, a beautiful Japanese variety; flowers upright, of clear apricot
yellow, strong and hardy; should have a place in every garden. Blooms
about July 15th. Price each, 25 cents ; dozen, $2.50.
Canadense, our native Lily, flowers drooping, delicate scarlet, yellow throat,
spotted black. Blooms July 10th. Price each, 15 cents ; dozen, $1.25.
candidum, common white garden Lily; hardy, free bloomer, fragrant.
Ready August 1st. Price each, 10 cents; dozen, Ji.oo.
croceum, bright orange, covered with black dots. Pr : ce each, 20 cents;
dozen, $2.00.
elegans atropurpureum, beautiful dark red. Price each, 20 cents; dozen
£2.00.
elegans, best light red. Price each, 15 cents ; dozen, $1. 50.
elegans incomparable. Blood red. Price each, 15 cents; dozen, $1. 50.
The above five varieties bloom about July 1st.
Hansoni, This is a rare early flowering species, of a beautiful yellow color,
petals very thick, dotted with purple. One of the handsomest varieties.
Blooms second week in June. Price each 75 cents ; dozen, $7.50.
Japonicum longiflorum, white, trumpet-shaped. Blooms about 20th of
July. Price each, 15 cents ; dozen, $1.50.
Leichtlini Maximowiczii. Flowers salmon scarlet, studded with large
purple dots. Will become popular on account of its long season of bloom,
from August and until frost comes. Price each, 30 cents,
pardalinum, the best of the Canadense class; yellow and red spotted.
Blooms about July 10th. Price each, 20 cents ; dozen, $2.00.
rubellum, (new), bell-shaped flowers of fine deep pink color, from two to
three inches long. This variety and L. tenuifolium are the first to bloom.
Price each, 25 cents ; dozen, $2.50.
speciosum rubrum, white and rose, dark crimson spots. Each 15 cents;
dozen, $1.50.
For $1.00 at single rates purchasers may select to amount 0/ $1.25.
An impression prevails that a bed of regal Lilies can be the
possession of only a favored few, who have wealth or other excep-
tional advantages less clearly specified. This notion is a mis-
taken one. The varieties are numerous and varied enough to
suit every taste and to preclude the probability of monotony.
Anyone, with intelligent care, can grow them; while they
increase in number, size and value, year by year, after ihey
become well established. They should be set where they are
desired to remain, as they do not take kindly to removal, liking
to spread and luxuriate year after year in the same spot, as
family treasure, and a long-loved ornament of home.
In stately splendor and exquisite coloring no flower can sur-
pass the Auratum and Melpomene varieties; none are fuller of
glowing life and color than the little Siberian Lily, L. tenuifol-
ium ; none display more barbaric magnificence than the single
and double Tiger Lilies. What blossom can be more sugges-
tive of purity than the Madonna Lily, L. candidum?
Plant the bulbs eight or nine inches deep. Many fail in this
particular, setting the bulbs so near the surface that the frosts
of winter almost throw them out of the soil. The Lily throws
out roots from the stalk above the bulb, and these serve the
double purpose of supplying nutriment to the plant and of brac-
ing and sustaining in position the heavy weight of the blossoms.
The soil for Lilies should be made rich with old, well-decayed
manure, thoroughly incoqiorated with the soil ; but fresh dress-
ing must never be used, nor must any come in contact with the
bulbs. They should be set on and surrounded by a layer of
pure sand. When the ground freezes in the fall, apply a cover-
ing of stable litter or leaves, which may be forked in in the
spring, thus supplying enrichment to the soil.
Lilium speciosum Melpomene, crimson, spotted with deep blood red : each
petal distinctly bordered with white. Same habit of growth as rubrum.
Stems dark and color of flower much deeper. Each 25 cents ; dozen, $2.50
speciosum album, white. Blooms August 15th. Each 20 cents ; dozen, $2.00.
The above four bloom about August 15th.
tenuifolium, one of the most beautiful and delicate of the early flowering
varieties. Flowers dazzling vermilion scarlet, suspended from slender
graceful stems; they are so bright as to attract attention from a great
distance. Blooms about June 1st. Price each, 25 cents ; dozen, $2 50.
tigrinum splendens, Tiger Lily. Blooms about August 1st. Price each, 10
cents; dozen, $1.00.
tigrinum, fl. pi., double Tiger Lily. Blooms about August 15th. Price
each, 15 cents; dozen, $1.50.
LILIUM SPECIOSUM RUBKUM.