Lilies for English gardensA guide for amateursCompiled from information published lately in "The Garden", with the addition of some original chapters . LILIUM : [Tallest spike lift. 6tns.). LILIUM GIGANTEUM; WHITE, WITH RED-PURPLE STRIPEINSIDE [Flowers ten inches long). LILIUM GIGANTEUM 5 laterally only a little way underground. The rootslook like those of a young tree or the great spreadingones of Eremurus robustus. The flowering stems haveneed of these great roots, for they rise to a height offrom ten to fourteen feet, though they are perhaps bestat from ten to eleven feet. In the l
Lilies for English gardensA guide for amateursCompiled from information published lately in "The Garden", with the addition of some original chapters . LILIUM : [Tallest spike lift. 6tns.). LILIUM GIGANTEUM; WHITE, WITH RED-PURPLE STRIPEINSIDE [Flowers ten inches long). LILIUM GIGANTEUM 5 laterally only a little way underground. The rootslook like those of a young tree or the great spreadingones of Eremurus robustus. The flowering stems haveneed of these great roots, for they rise to a height offrom ten to fourteen feet, though they are perhaps bestat from ten to eleven feet. In the last days of June,or the earliest days of July, the great trumpet-shapedflowers expand, each eight to nine inches long, andfour or five inches across the mouth. They aregreenish-yellow when they begin to open, but purewhite when fully opened, when they show a red-purple band inside. The great stem bears fromtwelve to twenty, or even more, of these flowerswithin some two feet of the top. The fragrance is powerful and delicious, and carriesfar in the still summer evenings when the light iswaning, at which time these grand Lilies look theirbest. Planted bulbs, unless quite full-sized, do not flo
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