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Mrs. Berkeley, the English hybridist of the primrose, sister to 

 Miss Willmott. "Mrs. Berkeley," writes Miss Willmott, "has 

 for some score or so of years selected and gro\NTi on her seedling 

 Campanula lactiflora until she has a fine row of stiflF-stemmed 

 plants, which stand of themselves unless an unusually heavy 

 rainstorm sweeps over the garden when they are in full flower. 

 She grows pure white forms some eight feet in height; but the 

 pride of the species is the grand erect deep-colored variety, 

 which is often ten feet high, with large open-mouthed bells of 

 rich purple, and seen in mass as growTi at Spetchley, it is a 

 glorious sight not easily forgotten." Can any American gar- 

 dener even imagine a campanula of this type ten feet high? 

 What a companion this noble plant might be, if times of bloom 

 permitted, for the Lilium giganteum, the giant lily. This grows 

 from ten to fourteen feet high. Do not think this too tall for 

 beauty. In the wood at Wisley, the experimental garden of tlie 

 Royal Horticultural Society, among the trees it holds its owti 

 well. A lily ten feet tall sounds a monstrosity; but in our border 

 in August, seen through and beside a copper-beech tree, there 

 is the gleam of salmon-orange of a group of Lilium henryi, some 

 of them nine feet tall, and the effect is not overpowering, but 

 one of grace and charm. The fragrance of Lilium giganteum — 

 according to Mr. H. S. Adams to whose little book, Lilies, I go 

 for constant help — is "delicious but powerful." The plant 

 comes from the Himalayas; the flower is white with a tinge of 

 purple within and of green without. 



Now as we discuss lilies, there is one word of caution with 

 regard to their planting which can never be too often given. 

 No manure, absolutely none, must touch their roots. The bulbs 

 must not be set in wet or in damp spots. They should, for the 

 most part, be planted very deep (six to eight inches), on their 

 sides, with a generous handful of sand beneath to lie on. 



