378 HARDY AND HALF-HARDY GARDEN BULBS. 



orange and yellow drooping flowers. It improves wonder- 

 fully in cultivation, often throwing a stalk five feet in 

 height, bearing twenty flowers. 



L. superbum, our finest native species ; flowers orange 

 reddish, with numerous spots ; drooping. Succeeds as well 

 as L. Canadense in cultivation. 



L. Martagon, fine varieties, with white and purple 

 flowers ; very ornamental, and hardy, if the soil is rather 

 sandy. 



L. chalcedonicum, the Scarlet Martagon ; one of the 

 most highly-colored species ; hardy, and worthy of a place 

 in every garden. 



L. testaceum, or excehum, a beautiful species, growing 

 from two to four feet high ; flowers in terminal umbels, 

 yellow or straw color, with faint red spots. It should be 

 planted deep, as the bulb makes roots both above and 

 below ; perfectly hardy. 



L. Tliunbergianum, a showy, orange red variety, from 

 Japan ; hardy. 



L. auratum is the new Golden-banded Lily, just intro- 

 duced. In size and markings it is the most beautiful of the 

 family. It will probably prove hardy, but as yet is very 

 rare. 



