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lilies, but like some of our most exquisite ferns they 

 depend much for their attractiveness upon the set- 

 ting their natural haunts offer, and I do not like to 

 see them caged, as it were, within strict garden 

 boundaries. 



The red wood-lily should be met among the great 

 brakes of a sandy wood edge, where white leafless 

 wands of its cousin, star-grass, or colic root, wave 

 above it, and the tall late meadow-rue and white an- 

 gelica fringe the background. 



The Canada bell-lily needs the setting of meadow 

 grasses to veil its long, stiff stalks, while the Turk's-cap 

 lily seems the most at home of all in garden surround- 

 ings, but it only gains its greatest size in the deep 

 meadows, where, without being wet, there is a certain 

 moisture beneath the deep old turf, and this turf itself 

 not only keeps out frost, but moderates the sun's rays 

 in their transit to the ground. 



Two lilies there are that, escaping from gardens, 

 in many places have become half wild the brick- 

 red, black- spotted tiger lily with recurved flowerets, 

 after the shape of the Japanese roseum, rubrum, and 

 album, being also a native of Japan and China, and 

 the tawny orange day lily, that is found in masses 

 about old cellars and waysides, with its tubular flowers, 



