Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1915 — Growing of Lillies. [ARTICLE]

Growing of Lillies.

Lillies can be grown in any good garden soil. Heavy soils should be made rich and provided with good drainage, light soils should be made rich and protected from the hot sun by a suitable mulch. Lillies are impatient of extremes—they suffer from too much water and dislike extreme heat as much as severe cold. Proper preparation of the lily bed 13 essential. The soil should be removed for a depth of two feet and at the bottom fork under six inches of well rotted manure. Then add another six Inches of the top soil and on this six inches of sand. Place the bulbs upon the covering of sand and cover them completely with sand; then fill up the bed with the remainder of the topsoil. Never let the manure come In contact with the bulbs. As a rule the autumn is the boa*, time to plant, although in the early spring successful planting may be done. When the plants have become established the bed should not be disturbed as long as the plants bloom satisfactorily. _