124 PLANNING AND PLANTING 



or flower until the hot days of July; the foliage 

 then turning brown and disappearing. 



Next, as if by magic, springing from the bare 

 soil, come the flower spikes. Soon these are 

 crowned with from four to fifteen or more lovely 

 lily-shaped flowers of delicate lilac-pink, shaded 

 and penciled with blue. 



Nature all around us is filling the world with its 

 magic and beauty, and the Lily, truly, "Solomon 

 in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." 



