White Trumpet Lily

White Trumpet Lily (Lilium Longiflorum) - This is among the most beautiful and most valuable of garden Lilies. The typical form is 1 to 3 feet high, the stems in summer being terminated by reflexed, tubular, waxy-white flowers, which are sweetly scented. There are several varieties, the best being the early variety now called pracox, of rather dwarf habit, with long, pointed, three-nerved, dark green foliage; the flowers are of great substance, tubular, and but little reflexed at the tip. This flowers a fortnight earlier than the type, bears larger and more numerous flowers, and is in every way superior to it. Takesima is recognised by a purplish tint on the exterior of the blossoms and on the stem. Wilsoni, or exmium, the finest variety, has bold dark foliage, and is nearly 4 feet high, with numerous flowers about 9 inches long. Takesima is the latest to bloom. Mme. Von Siebold is also a fine variety. L. longiflorum giganteum is the variety generally obtained from Japan; strong bulbs will send up a head of from eight to twelve flowers widely opened; the foliage is bright green; under glass this Lily may easily be forced. L. formosanum, the variety from Formosa, has its flowers ribbed and flushed with rosybrown; they are somewhat smaller in size than the type. L. Harrisi is L. longiflorum altered by growth in a tropical climate, Bermudas, S. Africa, etc. Jama-Jura and Liukiu are native names for the varieties mentioned. The variegated-leaved form (albo-marginatum) is desirable, as the vegetation is distinct and constant. L. longiflorum and its varieties sometimes bloom well in borders, but care should be taken that they are not injured by spring frosts. L. longiflorum is so early that, unless protected by the leaves of evergreens, its growth is apt to be checked. A well-drained light loam, well enriched with leaf-mould, suits it admirably. L. Wilsoni is benefited by a lighter soil and by a warmer and more sheltered position. When just pushing the growth in spring, it is advisable to encircle the plants with a few dead branches, if unprotected by shrubs. Where this fine species and its forms fail in the ordinary soil of the garden, success may be ensured by making a special soil of rotten manure, leaf-mould, or cocoa-fibre. In such a mixture, so free and open that the hand could be pushed down below the bulb, we have seen them perfectly grown where the natural soil was too stiff and impervious. The hardier varieties are admirable for artistic gardening, their fine forms being very effective when tastefully grouped on the fringe of beds of choice bushes and when touching and seeming to spring out of the grass. They are also good in beds either specially devoted to them alone or in combination with other plants. Similar to L. longiflorum are L. neilgherrense, philippinense, Wallichianum, and nepalense, but none is hardy, and all are poor and unsatisfactory, except, perhaps, for the greenhouse.

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