46 VARIETY IN THE LITTLE GARDEN 



type of this flower. Nine inner petals or petaloids in Kwanso 

 give a rich fullness to this orange-colored flower; stains of bright 

 red mark the lower part of the inside of the outer petals; and a 

 brilliant orange runs down into the cup or centre of the flower. 

 The color of the petaloids is orange also; and this, joined to the 

 twisted habit of both petals and petaloids and the pronounced 

 crimping or frilling of the edges of all, gives a very singular but 

 interesting effect. Earlier varieties are Queen of May and 

 Apricot. 



If we had cottage gardens in America (which we do not), 

 I should call this a flower of cottage gardens; for it is seen, I 

 believe, on almost every farm where flowers are grown. Indeed, 

 long after having been grown in the dooryard of a farmhouse, 

 and that house has decayed, or fire has ruined it as so often is 

 the case, here are these lilies glowing orange at their own time 

 in summer, mute reminders of a home that has been — and is 

 no more. Somewhere near Ardsley as one goes by train from 

 New York to Albany, the tracks on the right, away from the 

 river, are in late June brightened by the flowers of Hemerocallis 

 fulva, which in bold profusion, and with groups of elder bushes 

 in full white bloom, flower for many hundred feet within and 

 outside the fence of an estate which abuts upon the railway at 

 that point. This is a thing to watch for on the New York 

 Central lines at this time of year. 



Never was a fairer sight in rose-colored flowers than a bowl 

 near me now, in which branches of pink hawthorn are arranged 

 with clusters of the Clara Butt tulip. The tulip droops; for it 

 developed to the north of a lilac shrubbery, and crawled forth 

 prostrate on the grass to reach the light, the sun, therefore it 

 has not the upright habit of its kind. To make up for this, its 

 color is superb. No sunlight has taken one atom of rich pink 

 from its petals; its inner color, as one sees it here, is exactly 



