Addisonia 49 



(Plate 249) 

 LILIUM PARRYI 



Parry's Lily 



Native of southern California 

 Family Ijliaceae Lily Family 



Lilium Parryi S. Wats.; Parry, Proc. Davenport Acad. 2 : 189. 1878. 



This beautiful lily was first reported by Dr. C. C. Parry, who 

 found it growing in boggy ground in the San Bernardino Moun- 

 tains in Southern California in July, 1876. 



Fine plants of this species have been grown in pot culture at the 

 New York Botanical Garden with results which warrant a test in 

 the open. Carl Purdy, a grower of California bulb plants, says 

 of the leopard bog lilies, including L. Parryi, L. Roezlii, L. parvum, 

 and L. maritimum, "These lilies grow naturally along the banks 

 of small, living streams, on the borders of lakes and ponds, in deep 

 alpine meadows, on the borders of or on raised hummocks in bogs. 

 Their bulbs are not so deep as the others, and they are more de- 

 pendent upon surface moisture. The soil in such places as I have 

 mentioned is always rich in rotten leaves, and usually sandy; some- 

 times it is peat or pure humus. Shrubs or tall plants protect the 

 surface from heat." He recommends for best growth "a light, 

 sandy loam mixed with leaf -mold or peat" and for location "the 

 margin of a pond or a brook, planted a foot or so above the water 

 level in moist meadow-like expanses in sheltered places, or damp 

 openings in woods are ideal locations. In small grounds, a hydrant 

 can be so arranged as to give a constant drip; the fern corner is good, 

 and the rhododendron-bed is perfectly adapted. " Tilton in Bailey's 

 "Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture" speaks of L. Parryi as 

 "A beautiful species, rather capricious and tender under culti- 

 vation, but usually succeeding well under the same conditions as 

 L. canadense and L. superbum." 



L. Parryi is one of the species seldom seen in the flower garden 

 which will unquestionably well repay serious efforts to understamd 

 and meet the requirements for its successful culture. The plant 

 here illustrated grew at the New York Botanical Garden from a 

 bulb obtained from Carl Purdy, Ukiah, California. 



The bulb of Parry's lily is a scaly rhizome, two to four inches 

 long, rather densely covered with numerous slender scales that are 





