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l)ecoiniiig crowded it will be necessaiy to take them all up and 

 separate them. Except for this cause, it will not be necessary 

 to disturb them. 



The following varieties are well worthy of cultivation, and 

 without exception will winter safely in the ground. 



Canadensc. — This is the nodding Lily of our meadows, which 

 gratefully responds to the care of garden cultivation, increasing 

 in the size and number of its blooms. 



Candidum. — ^For purity and firagrance this old favorite 

 cannot be surpassed. Perfectly hardy, thriving in any garden, 

 yet grateful for a little care, which it repays a hundred-fold, 

 filling the air with its sweetness, and arrayed in snowy white, 

 adorning alike the garden of the cottager or of the king. It 

 is in bloom in July. There are varieties with golden and 

 silver striped leaves, with spotted, and striped, and double 

 flowers, but they are no improvement on the plain, single, pure 

 white lily. 



Chalcedonicunu — ^Is vay showy, the color being a veiy 

 briUiant scariet. 



Excelsum. — Grows as tall as Candidum, the flowers ate a 

 !N^ankeen yellow. 



Lancifolium. — There are several varieties of this species, but 

 all are beautiful and very fragrant They are delicately spotted 

 with ruby-red or rose-colored dots, and when once established in 

 good, loamy, well-drained soU, they will continue to increase in 

 the number and beauty of their flowers. 



Longiflorum. — The flowers are trumpet-shaped, fitjm six to 

 nine inches in length, white, and very fragrant. Where the 

 winters are open, this species should be protected by a light 

 covering of litter. 



Superbum. — ^A very showy species, often producing twenty 



flowers on a stalk, which are of a handsome reddish-orange color. 



Tigrinum. — ^The Tiger lily has become almost as weU-known 



as the White, and is a deserved favorite, being very hardy, and 



producing an abundance of showy orange-scarlet flowers, spotted 



