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tiger lily (L. tigrinum) and the bulb-bearing 

 lily (L. "bulbiferum) as well. For purity the 

 madonna lily stands alone, though L. Martagon 

 album is very fine for a less chaste white, while 

 for color the Nankeen, speciosum, gold-banded, 

 Martagon, Hanson's, Henry's, turban and all 

 of the hardier erect lilies, are always very 

 useful. 



The most beautiful formal employment of 

 lilies is to line a path, on one or both sides. 

 For such planting nothing is better than the 

 madonna lily, in a solid phalanx of purity. 

 Where a pergola is not densely shaded from 

 above, the path may be lined on either side with 

 this lily; that has been done, with most en- 

 chanting effect. The soft apricot Nankeen lily 

 lends itself to the same purpose. A path in 

 sparse woodland, or through shrubbery, may 

 be lined with either Brown's or the speciosum 

 lily, or L. longiflorum if more pains be taken, 

 but in this case the planting must be thinner 

 and altogether irregular. There these lilies 

 will incline gracefully toward the path, instead 

 of assuming the erectness that they have in the 

 open garden. 



One lily leaf, at least, may be taken from the 

 cottage gardens. In them a self-arranged 



