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Hungary, Siberia, and the northern parts of 

 China. M. Pirolle tells us that it is also indi- 

 genous to the damp forests of Piedmont. Both 

 the Yellow and the Copper-coloured Day Lilies 

 are old inhabitants of our gardens, since Gerard 

 says in 1596, that '' these Lillies do growe in 

 my garden, and also in the gardens of herbarists 

 and louers of fine and rare plants." This ex- 

 cellent old writer distinguishes these Lilies by 

 the title of Lilium non bulhosum, the root being 

 partly fibrous and partly tuberous, and not bul- 

 bous like other Lilies. Parkinson writes on the 

 Yellow Day Lily, under the name of Liliaspho- 

 dehis, from its root resembling that of the As- 

 phodel, 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 

 succeeded 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 something 

 shady. It is an admirable flower for the vase of 

 the saloon, as its graceful corollas being sup- 

 ported on an erect stem show to peculiar advan- 

 tage when towering above roses or lilacs. 



