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able place will increase in beauty and also in num- 

 bers year after year. L. Canadense grows about three 

 feet high, and has usually orange yellow flowers. 

 L. pardalinum and L. superbum will grow 6 ft. high 

 or more, and their flowers are bright orange scarlet. 

 L. Grayi is a beautiful lily with crimson drooping 

 flowers which is said to be a variety of L. Canadense 

 and also to be not much more difficult to grow. 



Lilium giganteum, the tallest of lilies, grows over 10 

 ft. high. Its flowers are relatively small and not partic- 

 ularly beautiful in themselves, though the whole effect 

 of a plant in flower is very fine. It should be planted 

 in April in a deep soil half loam and half humus, with 

 the top of the bulb uncovered by soil, and it must 

 be protected from late frosts and from drought. When 

 this lily flowers the flowering bulb dies and throws 

 offsets, which should be taken up and replanted sep- 

 arately, and which will then flower in a year or two. 

 It is best to start with small bulbs and not to expect 

 flowers for a year or two. L. giganteum is a lily for 

 woodland glades or the wild garden rather than for 

 the herbaceous border. 



Lilium Henryi was only introduced a few years 

 ago, and is a most valuable lily, perhaps no more 

 difficult than L. tigrinum. In the shape of its flowers 

 and in its growth it is like L. speciosum, but the flowers 

 are deep orange yellow, and it grows to a great height. 

 It is not particular about soil, but does best perhaps 

 in deep loam and leaf-mould in a half-shaded place 

 among low shrubs. It will stand sun, however, much 



