Wood and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur . , like a vigorous young green-stemmed the bulb is strong and the conditions suitable, itwill attain a height of over eleven feet, but among theflowering bulbs of a group there are sure to be someof various heights from differently sized bulbs; thosewhose stature is about ten feet are perhaps the hand-somest. The upper part of the stem bears the grace-fully droopiug great white Lily flowers, each bloomsome ten inches long, greenish when in bud, but chang-ing to white when fully developed. Inside each pet
Wood and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur . , like a vigorous young green-stemmed the bulb is strong and the conditions suitable, itwill attain a height of over eleven feet, but among theflowering bulbs of a group there are sure to be someof various heights from differently sized bulbs; thosewhose stature is about ten feet are perhaps the hand-somest. The upper part of the stem bears the grace-fully droopiug great white Lily flowers, each bloomsome ten inches long, greenish when in bud, but chang-ing to white when fully developed. Inside each petalis a purplish-red stripe. In the evening the scent seemsto pour out of the great white trumpets, and is almostoverpowering, but gains a delicate quality by passingthrough the air, and at fifty yards away is like a faintwaft of incense. In the evening light, when the sunis down, the great heads of white flower have a mys-terious and impressive effect when seen at some distancethrough the wood, and by moonlight have a strangelyweird dignity. The flowers only last a few days, but. 4- The Giant Lily. JULY 97 when they are over the beauty of the plant is by nomeans gone, for the handsome leaves remain in perfec-tion till the autumn, while the growing seed-pods,rising into an erect position, become large and ratherhandsome objects. The rapidity and vigour of thefour months growth from bulb to giant flowering plantis very remarkable. The stem is a hoUow, fleshy tube,three inches in diameter at the base, and the largeradiating roots are like those of a tree. The originalbulb is, of course, gone, but when the plants that haveflowered are taken up at the end of November, offsetsare found clustered round the root; these are carefullydetached and replanted. The great growth of theseLilies could not be expected to come to perfection inour very poor, shallow soil, for doubtless in their moun-tain home in the Eastern Himalayas they grow in deepbeds of cool vegetable earth. Here, therefore,
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