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live with you for years and love you and give you every 

 season increasing yield of silver-white-crowned stalks, 

 at the very time that you need them to blend with 

 your royal blue delphiniums. But this will be only 

 if you obey the warning of "hands and spade off." 



The three species of the well-known recurved Japan 

 lily speciosum roseum, s. rubrum, and s. album 

 have the same love of permanence ; likewise the lily- 

 of-the-valley and all the tribe of border narcissi and 

 daffodils ; so if you wish to keep them at their best, you 

 must not only give them bits of ground all of their 

 own, but study their individual needs and idiosyn- 

 crasies. 



Lilies as a comprehensive term, the Biblical 

 grass of the field, as far as concerns a novice or the 

 Garden, You, and I, may be made to cover the typical 

 lilies themselves, tulips, narcissi (which are of the 

 amaryllis flock), and lilies-of-the-valley, a tribe by 

 itself. You will wish to include all of them in your 

 garden, but you must limit yourself to the least whim- 

 sical varieties on account of your purse, the labor 

 entailed, and the climate. 



Of the pieces of ground that you describe, take 

 that in partial shade for your Madonna lilies and their 

 kin, and that hi the open sun for your lilies-of-the- 



