Now that its impeccably preserved cast-iron fire escapes and industrial facades showcase the wares of Chanel, Prada and numerous less exalted brands, the area south of Houston Street is a far cry from the hardscrabble manufacturing zone that once earned the derisive nickname Hellâs Hundred Acres.
Caution: irritant to skin and eyes, harmful if eaten. Grow Arum Lilies in sunny borders in rich fertile, moist or boggy soil. When growing in containers, use a loam based compost such as John Innes No. 2.Alternatively, plant Zantedeschia as a marginal plant at the edge of ponds.pply a deep mulch around the crown of border grown plants in autumn to protect them from hard frosts. Lift and divide clumps of white Arum Lily every 3 years in autumn to maintain vigorous, healthy growth.
Another, and not less interesting species, is the arum arisarum. Everyday Objects W. H. Davenport Adams In the arum maculatum, the number of ovules does not exceed six. The men also wear chaplets of brilliant flowers or arum stalks. Out of the folds of the shawl her neck rose as erect as the pistil of an arum lily. The deep hearth was filled with arum lilies and azalias, like a font at Easter. Phantom Fortune, A Novel M. E. Braddon What the atrocious fetor of the arum cannot do the absence of odour accomplishes!