Lilium Lancifolium

Edward Smith. - You should let your pots of the Japan Lilies stand quite dry until the end of December. Then pot them, for they begin to grow at the root about that time. They do not require vegetable mould. They grow stronger and finer in good rich compost, half loam and half well rotted manure.

Lilium Ledchilinii

Is a charming new variety, from Japan ; of unusually small, slender growth ; from one to two feet high ; flowers of a pure, golden-yellow color, thickly spotted with delicate purple. Very scarce variety.

Lilium Tigrinum Flore Plane

Double flowering Tiger Lily. This attractive variety produces beautiful double flowers in immense numbers, of a bright, orange-scarlet color, thickly studded with dark, brown spots. The plant is of vigorous growth and habit, from four to six feet in height; foliage, dark-green and long.

Lilium Tigrinum Flore Pleno

This is one of the most remarkable varieties yet produced of the Tiger Lily class. Its flowers arc very large, double, and of a bright orange color; the segments are thickly studded with dark brown spots, except at the tips, which are recurved - introduced from Japan only within a few years, and hitherto has been quite rare and high priced. Considered by florists very novel and extremely handsome. Most American florists now have it.

Lilium Tigrinum Lishmanni

This is a new lily of the Tigrinum group, but differing considerably from others in the spotting of the flowers; the ground color of them is of the usual cinnabar or orange red, the spots being sparse toward the apex of the segments, becoming bolder and closer placed toward the base, but stopping somewhat abruptly, so that the center of the flower is quite free from them. This plant came from Japan in 1871, by P. R. Tufual, of England, from Mr. Lishmann, after whom it was named.

Lilium Tigrinum. Splendent

Has the same general appearance as the common Tiger Lily, but of more robust growth and habit; foliage, very dense and beautiful; flowers, very large and numerous ; of dark, orange-scarlet color, with dark, brown spots, very large.

Lilium Washingtonianum

Is a plant of rare merit, the finest variety yet found in this country. The flowers, which are produced in great numbers, are pure white, spotted with bright scarlet, peduncles erect. The flowers have a most delightful fragrance. The plant grows to very great size, from twelve to fifteen feet high, and bears from fifty to sixty flowers.

Lillies

The Florist and Pomologist speaks of several new lilies. " One of them is the L. tigrinum Fortunei, introduced by Mr. Fortune from China. This is remarkable for its vigorous growth, and its immense head of flowers, which branches out in three successive series from the main stem, by which the blossoming season is prolonged. Another is the L. tigrinum Splendent, introduced to public notice by M. van Houtte, and which in its taller stature, and ample branching inflorescence, bears considerable resemblance to the Fortunei, but is said to differ somewhat in color, and in the fewer and more prominent spots on the perianth. Both are grand additions to the groups of bulbous plants".