120 PLANNING AND PLANTING 



THE LILIES OF THE FIELD 



"Consider the Lilies of the field, how they grow; 

 they toil not, neither do they spin, yet I say unto 

 you; Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed 

 like one of these." Matt 6 . 28 _ 29i 



IN the days of Our Lord the Lily was taken as 

 a type of the gorgeous and the beautiful, and 

 yet today we know marvelous forms and types of 

 flowers, brought forth by the patience and skill 

 of the hybridizer, such as were not even dreamed 

 of in those ancient days. 



Probably no flower surpasses the Lily of the 

 Field in its stately beauty and richness of color 

 and texture. It is a flower well worthy of being 

 exalted in poetry and in prose. 



Of all the Lilies of the Field, our choice must fall 

 to one coming from the far away isles of Japan. 

 This is the Auratum Lily, and every lover of the 

 beautiful should know and grow this gorgeous and 

 fragrant flower of Nippon. 



Think of it! Six to twenty immense and gor- 

 geous blooms on a single spike, scenting the entire 

 vicinity with fragrance. The stranger to this 

 flower, on first beholding its beauty, fairly gasps 

 with astonishment and delight. 



