OUR MOUNTAIN GARDEN 



in this location, I am now ambitious to 

 have many varieties of this lovely flower, 

 and add to my stock each fall a few new 

 kinds from the florists. The illustration 

 shows my last experiment, the golden 

 lily of Japan, queen of all the lilies, 

 which bore great white flowers thirteen 

 inches in diameter, and of the most deli- 

 cious fragrance, last year. 



The comfortable thing about lilies is 

 that they do not like to be disturbed, as I 

 have said, and so one is spared the ever- 

 lasting digging up and dividing of plants 

 which seems to be necessary for so many 

 other flowers, and when once the bed is 

 filled, one can leave them in peace for 

 years except for fertilizing, cultivating, and 

 mulching. This introduces a certain ele- 

 ment of repose and finality into the atmos- 

 phere of the lily bed which is a pleasant con- 

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