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cinth, Daffodil, Flower de Luce, double Peony, 

 Lilac, Lily of the Valley. 



A favorite flower was the yellow garden Lily, the 

 Lemon Lily, Hemerocallis, when it could be kept 

 from spreading. Often its unbounded luxuriance 

 exiled it from the front yard to the kitchen door- 

 yard, as befell the clump shown facing page 48. 

 Its pretty old-fashioned name was Liricon-fancy, 

 given, I am told, in England to the Lily of the 

 Valley. I know no more satisfying sight than a 

 good bank of these Lemon Lilies in full flower. 

 Below Flatbush there used to be a driveway lead- 

 ing to an old Dutch house, set at regular inter- 

 vals with great clumps of Lemon Lilies, and their 

 full bloom made them glorious. Their power of 

 satisfactory adaptation in our modern formal gar- 

 den is happily shown facing page 76, in the lovely 

 garden of Charles E. Mather, Esq., in Haverford, 

 Pennsylvania. 



The time of fullest inflorescence of the nineteenth 

 century front yard was when Phlox and Tiger Lilies 

 bloomed ; but the pinkish-orange colors of the lat- 

 ter (the oddest reds of any flower tints) blended 

 most vilely and rampantly with the crimson-purple 

 of the Phlox ; and when London Pride joined 

 with its glowing scarlet, the front yard fairly 

 ached. Nevertheless, an adaptation of that front- 

 yard bloom can be most effective in a garden bor- 

 der, when white Phlox only is planted, and the 

 Tiger Lily or cultivated stalks of our wild nodding 

 Lily rise above the white trusses of bloom. These 

 wild Lilies grow very luxuriantly in the garden, 



