in one's garden. Some individual plants will live where others The 



of the same species would die. This is specially mentioned, as Martagon 



some of this group are rather difficult to establish. Group and 



The common Martagon Lily, L. Martagon^ may be taken j*. g varieties 

 as typical of this group, and it is one of the most easily 

 cultivated, either in border, wood, or garden. The writer 

 knows of a place where there are thousands of the common 

 Martagon, with many plants of its white variety, in a wood 

 within the policies of a country house. The white variety 

 is very beautiful, and the deep-coloured forms, dalmaticum 

 and Gatanii, are good growers and please many. Growing 

 in the same soil, any good loam, may be cultivated the 

 brilliant vermilion scarlet chalcedonicum ; the splendid golden 

 crimson-spotted Humboldtii, the pretty nankeen testaceum or 

 excelsum, the fine yellow Hansom, an excellent Lily ; the 

 orange-red columbianum ; the rather strongly-scented, early 

 pyrenaicum and its variety rubrum ; the scarlet pomponium, and 

 the fine monadelpbum and its variety szovitzianum. 



For moist places, such as near the margin of streams, we may 

 have the showy Panther Lily, L. pardalinum, of which there 

 are several varieties, all having the flowers crimson or orange ; 

 the fine canadense ; Grayii, and the variable Burbanki, a hybrid. 



Special mention in this group may be made of Da/hansoni 

 and Martian, two hybrids which grow in common soil ; a fine 

 form of the latter, named Miss Willmott, is very choice. 



The last group is among the most prized of all, as compris- 

 ing the most beautiful of all Lilies, L. auratum, which, in its 

 several varieties, is the pride of every garden where it is a suc- 

 cess. It grows magnificently in the lovely garden at Mount 

 Usher, co. Wicklow, where the drawing which accompanies 



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