. Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. -. At least, in severe winters, it is desirable to protect it, by amulching of old bark, or a wooden covering, or an inverted garden-pot, fromextreme wet or frost. It flourishes in any loamy soil that is open and slightlynutritive ; an adhesive, sterile, or exceedingly rich earth being inappropriate. It may be reproduced by dividing the roots in the spring months, shortlybefore it begins to grow. Ortega formed this genus in compliment to Dodan Pascal, , a professor .i^^;y/^-fyt t-y/Z/y I I 127 LILIUM
. Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants. -. At least, in severe winters, it is desirable to protect it, by amulching of old bark, or a wooden covering, or an inverted garden-pot, fromextreme wet or frost. It flourishes in any loamy soil that is open and slightlynutritive ; an adhesive, sterile, or exceedingly rich earth being inappropriate. It may be reproduced by dividing the roots in the spring months, shortlybefore it begins to grow. Ortega formed this genus in compliment to Dodan Pascal, , a professor .i^^;y/^-fyt t-y/Z/y I I 127 LILIUM SPECIOSUM; mr. ALBUM. (white-flowered showy lily.) class. order. HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. NATUllAL ORDER. LILIACE^. Generic Character.—Perianth campanulnte, six-parted, with a nectariferous furrow in the , valves connected with small fibres. Seeds compressed. Specific Chaiuctkr.—Bulb scaly. Stem erect, from three to four feet high and upwards, branching,smooth. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, scattered, ncrvose, somewhat refle.\ed. Flowers terminal, vary-ing in number, one on each branch. Perianth drooping; segments reflexed and folded, covered?with little warty excrescences on the inside, rose-coloured, with dark red blotches. Var, Album.—Floicers white. No one can be acquainted with the many beautiful plants collected by Dr. Sieboldin Japan, without awarding the preference to those lovely lilies which are now thepride of our conservatories. In regard to beauty and magnificence, they rank withthe most splen
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