CHAPTER VI 



A GARDEN OF LILIES AND IRIS 



SOME years ago I heard of "A Garden 

 of Lilies," a garden where nothing else 

 was grown. The phrase and the description 

 of this garden remained in my mind and the 

 desire to have one where Lilies particularly 

 should be grown took great hold of me. In 

 my imagination I saw the tall, graceful 

 stalks crowned with their beautiful flowers, 

 cut the lovely things and breathed their 

 delicious perfume. After reading all that I 

 could find upon the cultivation of Lilies, and 

 studying the catalogues, I finally made a 

 beginning. 



The place where I planned to have this 



garden had been for years a garden where 



small vegetables had been raised. The 



ground sloped slightly towards the southeast, 



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