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The Wood-Lilies, on the other hand, require no atten- 
tion beyond good planting, and are among the grandest 
of all plants for any corner of the garden wet or dry, in 
any cool moist climate, in any deep rich soil—peaty, 
loamy or, best of all, leafy—but not limy. In the copse, 
in the wild-garden, beside the stream, on the shady rock- 
work, wherever Solomon’s Seal and Lily of the Valley will 
thrive, there may you also have clumps and drifts and 
beds of Trillium. And Trillium, for general garden 
purposes, means 7'rilliwm grandiflorum, the sovereign of 
the race. The great Wood-Lily, in growth and texture 
and height, is exactly like a three-leaved version of our 
own rare north-countryman, Paris quadrifolia, from the 
Alpine woods. But who is there that does not know the 
flower, that huge, tripetalled snowy goblet, so different 
from the inconspicuous little quaint green bloom of 
Paris? Trillium grandiflorum stands well ahead among 
plants of the first rank for the rock-garden,—of perfect 
ease, hardiness, and persistence. Slugs and mice, however, 
are its bitter enemies here—or perhaps ardent inarticu- 
late admirers, who can only show their admiration by 
eating its object. Its rosy variety is lovely, but cannot 
possibly improve on the snowy type—exquisite as is the 
harmony that my plants are now making in a big bed 
which they share with their contemporary, profusely 
pink-belled little Menziesia empetriformis. And Trillium 
grandiflorum will vary very much in size and splendour 
from one importation—some forms almost reaching the 
snowy magnificence of a young Liliwm candidum, or Mag- 
nolia Yulan, while others are comparatively—but only 
comparatively—poor. Trillium sessile has beauty in its 
three broad marbled leaves, but its big flowers are narrow 
in petal and dull in colour, except in the variety califor- 
nicum, which is larger and longer than gvandiflorum, of a 
bright, warm white, but inferior in effect, owing to its 
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