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and is very easily grown. But it can never 
make the impression that the Madonna lily 
does in the garden picture, for it only reaches 
a foot or more in height, and is over- 
looked. 
If the candidum and longiflorum lilies seem 
like angelic flowers, the freckled tiger lily 
might almost belong to the world of demons. 
The spot in nature is always suggestive of 
imperfection and evil, and poisonous animals 
and noxious flowers, such as the spotted 
adder and the deadly foxglove, often carry 
itasa warning. And the red tiger lily, grow- 
ing with the eager rankness of our pleasant 
vices, is the antithesis of the spotless white 
flowers. There is no coyness in its growth. 
It springs and spreads and blooms con 
amore, contributing its hot colour to the 
blaze of the July garden. Angus Hamilton 
describes the tiger lilies growing on the 
islands off the coast of Korea, among lux- 
uriant ferns and creepers. He enumerates 
a curious collection of flowers, asters, and 
daisies, cactus, purple iris, ferns and wild 
