Lilies for English gardensA guide for amateursCompiled from information published lately in "The Garden", with the addition of some original chapters . LILIES AS CUT FLOWERS 45 dark-leaved green Aucuba, or Acanthus latifolius pre-pared by a bath of some hours in a tank or tub. L. speciosum and its varieties admit of much morevariety in the choice of foHage. If there are stronggrowing examples of Magnolia conspicua, some oftheir summer shoots of handsome pale leaves, pro-bably two feet long, can well be spared; if the treeis against a wall a good quantity will be is well worth keep
Lilies for English gardensA guide for amateursCompiled from information published lately in "The Garden", with the addition of some original chapters . LILIES AS CUT FLOWERS 45 dark-leaved green Aucuba, or Acanthus latifolius pre-pared by a bath of some hours in a tank or tub. L. speciosum and its varieties admit of much morevariety in the choice of foHage. If there are stronggrowing examples of Magnolia conspicua, some oftheir summer shoots of handsome pale leaves, pro-bably two feet long, can well be spared; if the treeis against a wall a good quantity will be is well worth keeping in the reserve garden apatch of Maize and a little of the variegated kind,on purpose for cutting to go with Lilies and Gladiolusand other important summer and autumn the first shoots of the Maize are cut when theyare three feet high, it will push again from the baseand give a number of useful shoots of gracefulgreenery for the autumn. It should be rememberedthat, like so many of the Lilies, Maize also makesstem roots, so that it should be planted at the bottomof a depression or in a trench, and given a gooddressing of compost to f
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