the Lilies that will suit their particular grounds ; for it is generally 

 understood that the soil and conditions of any one garden are not likely to 

 suit a large number of different kinds of these delightful plants. Four 

 or five successful kinds are about the average, and the owner is lucky if 

 the superb White Lily is among them. But Lilies are so beautiful, so full 

 of character, so important among other flowers or in places almost by 

 themselves, that, when it is known which are the right ones to grow, 

 those kinds should be well and rather largely used. 



The garden in which these fine groups were painted has a good 

 loamy soil, such as, with good gardening, grows most hardy flowers well, 

 and therefore the grand White Lily also thrives. A few of the LiHes like 

 peat, such as the great Auratum, and the two lovely pink ones, Krameri 

 and Rubellum. But the garden of strong loam should never be without 

 the White Lily, the Orange Lily, and the Tiger Lily, an autumn flower 

 that seems to accommodate itself to any soil. The Orange Lilies are 

 grandly grown by the Dutch nurserymen in many varieties, under the 

 names bulbiferum, croceum, and davuricum, and their price is so moderate 

 that it is no extravagance to buy them in fair quantity. 



Flowers of pure scarlet colour are so little common among hardy 

 perennials that it seems a pity that the brilliant Lilium chalcedonicum of 

 Greece, Palestine, and Asia Minor, and its ally L. pomponium, the Scarlet 

 Martagon of Northern Italy, should be so seldom seen in gardens. They 

 are some of the most easily grown, and are not dear to buy. Another 

 Lily that should not be forgotten and is easy to grow in strong soils is the 

 old Purple Martagon ; not a bright-coloured flower, but so old a plant of 

 English gardens that in some places it has escaped into the woods. The 

 white variety is very beautiful, the colour an ivory white, and the flower 

 of a waxy texture. They are the Imperial Martagon, or Great Mountain 

 Lily of the old writers ; the scarlet pomponium, of the same shaped flower, 

 was their Martagon Pompony. The name "pompony,"no doubt, came 

 from the tightly rolled-back petals giving the flower something of the 

 look of the flattened melons of the Cantaloupe kind, with their deep 

 longitudinal furrows ; the old name of these being " Pompion." Another 

 name for this Lily was the Red Martagon of Constantinople. It is so 

 named by that charming old writer Parkinson, who gives evidence of its 



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