LILIUM 



(The classic Latin name, from the Greek Uiroin, a lily) 

 Liliacea 



5. Lilium Henryi 



AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER 



IARGE, dark salmon-orange flowers sparingly spotted with red-brown, 

 -y borne horizontally in loose pyramidal heads of four to eight flowers 

 on leafy stems of graceful and unconventional habit four to eight feet high. 

 Leaves slender and rather 

 inconspicuous. Superb 

 in clumps in the herba- 

 ceous border or massed 

 against shrubbery. After 

 blooming the foliage dies 

 to the ground. A recently 

 introduced and therefore 

 still comparatively ex- 

 pensive variety but none 

 the less sturdy and free 

 growing. 



A perfectly hardy per- 

 ennial of easy culture. 

 A well-drained soil is 

 essential, and manure 

 should never be allowed 

 to come in direct contact 

 with the bulb. For proper 

 planting of Lilies see 

 Lilium auratum (page 

 255). Will thrive in sun 

 or partial shade, but the 

 ground should always be 

 kept cool and moist either 

 by shade or by a top dress- 

 ing of peat or leaf mold. 



Propagate by ofi'sets or by bulb-scales planted as soon as ripe 



