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SCHOOL AND HOME GARDENS 



The wild yellow lily (Lilium canadense) has narrow, 

 bell-shaped flowers on long peduncles and is very fra- 

 grant. The petals are yellow or orange, usually spotted 

 with brown. In its native haunts in the Northern 



states it grows in moist 

 meadows or bogs. As a 

 border plant it may be 

 grown in moist, light soil 

 and in full sunlight. 



The tiger lily (Lilium 

 tigrinwn) has large, deep- 

 orange flowers thickly spotted 

 with dark brown. It is a Japa- 

 nese plant that has escaped from 

 old gardens. It may be propa- 

 gated by planting the little black 

 bulbils, found in the axils of 

 the leaves, when they are fully 

 ripened. 



The white dogtooth violet 

 (Erythronium albidum) and the 

 dogtooth violet (Erythronium 

 americanum), sometimes called 

 the yellow adder' s-tongue, with 



its mottled leaves and light-yellow petals, are both 

 excellent plants for growing in shaded rockeries and 

 among shrubbery. If grown in the open, they prefer 

 a northern slope. The flowering season is from April 

 to May. 



FIG. 68. Dogtooth Violet 

 (Erythronium americanum) 



