The Japanese Lilies are so hardy, as well as beautiful, that they should become as common as the Turk's Cap and Tiger Lilies. They are now all moderately cheap, and if one only has a bulb or two to start with, the stock may readily be increased. If left to themselves, the bulbs become large clumps by natural subdivision, but this is a slow way of multiplying them. If a lily be taken up in autumn, after the leaves have withered, there will be found upon the stem, just above the old bulb, a mass of small bulbs intermingled with roots. A dozen, and even more, are frequently found. The little bulbs may be removed and planted out separately, or the stem to which they are attached may be cut off just above the old bulb, and set out with the cluster of bulbs and roots attached. They should be covered the first winter with % few inches of litter. The next season they will make strong bulbs.

Another method of propagation is from the scales, of which the lily is mostly made up. These scales are attached to a solid portion at the base of the bulb, and they are broken off close to this, it being important to get the very base of the scale. The outer scales of a bulb may be removed without injury to it. Indeed, the majority of those offered for sale by florists have first been deprived of their outer scales, which makes the bulb look better, and at the same time gives them material for propagation. The scales are set out in an upright position in boxes of sandy compost, pressing them down into it until the point is about level with the surface. The boxes are to be placed in a room where they will be at about the temperature of 50 or 60 degrees, and kept just moist enough to prevent shrivelling. In about two months a small bulb, sometimes two, will be found at the base of each scale. In spring the boxes are plunged in the open ground, and the bulbs allowed to grow all summer; in the following autumn cover them with litter, and the next spring if too thick, they are to be planted out separately. - Exchange.