LITTLE GARDENS 



with anything, except black, which fortunately 

 does not occur In flowers, but only In the evening 

 dress of men — and dreadful guys they look at 

 night, as their great-grandchildren will tell them 

 a hundred years from now. Though a trifle tall 

 for a border, any or all of the lilies will make a 

 good appearance against a green background, 

 care being taken to avoid such other contrasts 

 as cheapen the red and yellow of some varieties 

 when placed near other flowers. The wood-lily 

 and tiger-lily, for example, are of a tawny or 

 foxy shade that suffers by contact with the crim- 

 son of a rose, the pink of a peony or even the 

 scarlet of a geranium. They can better abide 

 near zinnias, marigolds, nasturtiums and core- 

 opsis. Of hardy varieties, like the candldum, 

 auratum, speciosum, longiflorum, tenulfolium 

 and funkia, all are safe to plant about the be- 

 ginning of November, In partly shaded beds, 

 at a depth of five or six Inches, and during their 

 first winter out of doors the bulbs should also 

 be protected with a mat of leaves, or old manure. 

 Other plants ask the same kindness, In their first 

 winter, and It Is as well to grant it to all of them, 

 whether they ask It or not. The loss by frost 

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