134. A Little Maryland Garden 
beautiful, that once having grown them 
in the garden you can never do without 
them again. 
A more familiar lily is the Madonna or 
Annunciation lily (Lilium candidum), which 
fortunately is at home in Maryland gardens, 
and often thrives for years. It is of a 
dazzling whiteness that no other flower that 
I know approaches. Maeterlinck, who can 
picture a flower in a phrase, speaks of ‘‘the 
great white lily, the only authentic prince 
among the commonalty, with his invariable 
six-petalled chalice of silver, whose nobility 
dates back to that of the gods themselves; 
the immemorial lily raises his ancient scep- 
tre, august, inviolable, which creates around 
it a zone of chastity, silence, and light.”” In 
old gardens one often sees this lily shining 
radiant among ‘‘the commonalty” of the 
border, in June, seeming as far above 
them in its immaculate purity as an angel 
among men. 
The longiflorum has a beautiful white trum- 
pet, and an almost overpowering sweetness, 
