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lilies of July and August. The finest of these is, perhaps, 

 LiUum auratum. It is a grand lily with white flowers, 

 spotted with maroon and a gold 

 band through the centre of each tifa^M&&? ..$> 

 petal. It is sometimes a little diffi- 

 cult to grow. L. Batemanniw is also 

 a beautiful summer lily from Japan, 

 with flowers of a clear orange-apri- 

 cot color, unspotted. L. speciosum 

 is another favorite Japanese lily of 

 easy growth and general adapta- 

 bility. There is a beautiful white LILIUM SPECIOSUM. 

 form and also a white tinged and spotted with rose. 

 One of the best native species is I/ilium svperbum, Turk's- 

 cap lily, with flowers of a bright orange, marked with purple 

 spots and beautifully recurved. This kind is very hardy 

 and tenacious of life, and is particularly effective and suc- 

 cessful planted among rhododen- 

 drons and other similar shrubs. 



The tiger lily, Z. tigrinum, is 

 very showy and stays in bloom a 

 long time during summer. There 

 is a grand variety of this tiger lily 

 (tigrinum splendens) that has tall 

 stems and fiery scarlet flowers. 

 Lilium Canadense is a showy 

 summer - blooming species, with 

 nodding yellow or orange flowers 

 spotted with brown. There is also a deep-red variety of 

 Canadense. Lilium pardalinum, leopard lily, is a summer- 



TURK'S-CAP LILY. 



( LILIUM SUPEHBUM.I 



