YELLO^Y DAY I.ILV. 19§ 



Hungary, Si])eria, and the northern parts of China. 

 ]M. Pirolle tells us that it is also indigenous to 

 tlie damp forests of Piedmont. Both the Yellow 

 and the Copper-coloured Day Lilies are old in- 

 habitants of our gardens, since Gerard says in 

 1596, that '' these Lilies do growe in my garden, 

 and also in the gardens of herbarists and louers 

 of fine and rare plants."" This excellent old 

 M-riter distinguishes these Lilies by the title of 

 Lilium no)i bidbosinn, the root being partly fibrous 

 and partly tuberous, and not bulbous like other 

 Lilies. Parkinson writes on the Yellow Day Lily, 

 under the name of Liliasphodelus, from its root 

 resembling that of the Asphodel ; and he tells us 

 that it grows naturally in many moist places in 

 Germany. 



The Yellow Day Lily flowers in June, and 

 although the blossoms are not durable, they are 

 followed by others in succession, so that the plant 

 continues to display its beauty, and to give out its 

 agreeable fragrance for a considerable length of 

 time, and more particularly so when planted in a 

 moist soil and a situation somewhat shady. It is 

 an admirable flower for the vase of the saloon, as 

 its graceful corollas, being supported on an erect 

 stem, show to peculiar advantage when towering 

 above roses or lilacs. 



