TO CORRESPONDENTS.
fcttlflM AUKATUM (8.a).-s!y experience "of "aying to establish tho Liliuni Auratum is Sjniowbat similar to your own. Timo aftor rfiielhavo imported bullis; nomolimei they Sjaldgrow and (lower the first season, and Mjterwarda dio out. Throa yours ago T got Ijme which wero grown in Napier. Thusa troro planted, but a lot of them diod, only four firmly establishing themselves. Tlioso four aro now doing; well, and this spring t havo throe strong shoo'.s fvom each, besides a largo number of little baby bulbs, jhowii'Kthat tlle Httlo white insect which has destroyed your bulbs was also the cause of tho death of tlioso which I lost. In planting ou tl prefer to uso only soils in which thero «ro no decomposing materials, as tho little white insect seoms to doveloyj in such soils first and then attacks tho bulbs. The only •dviee which I could give you for noxtseason would be to purchaso bulbs which havo beon grown in Auckland. Plant ns aboro When tou obtain them, and if you fail two or three time 3 try on till you succeed, as the above )ily is well worth the trouble and «xp©n»e to cot established. Last season I had sov«nteen lowers on ouo flower stalk.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 253, 22 October 1892, Page 3 (Supplement)
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