LILIES FOR NORTHERN GARDENS 13 



does not begin to be grown as much as its merits 

 warrant. These merits include late August and 

 early September bloom, thus extending the lily 

 season. There are both white and colored va- 

 rieties. The white has a faint greenish stripe 

 down each petal and it is one of the best of cool- 

 looking flowers for midsummer. It deserves 

 the widest cultivation with, rather than in 

 preference to, the type ; which is white, faintly 

 flushed and spotted with crimson. If more 

 rosiness is desired, add the admirable variety 

 Melpomene, which is quite a deep crimson mar- 

 gined with white. There are a number of other 

 good kinds, running into somewhat confused 

 nomenclature; but more minute distinctions 

 than these three may well be left to Dutch, 

 Japanese and English horticulturists to set- 

 tle among themselves. The so-called yellow 

 speciosum is L. Henryl. 



For its like hardiness, its glowing color and 

 its rounding out of a little lily season of three 

 months by blooming late in July and early in 

 August, the tiger lily (L. tigrmum) is well en- 

 titled to third place. The particular shade of 

 orange red, spotted with deep purple, is alto- 

 gether unique among tall lilies and, when rightly 

 employed, is a valuable tone in garden painting. 



