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inside with purple. It grows best in a moist, but not 

 sodden, peaty soil, in a partially shaded place, such as 

 occurs in a well-planned rock garden. 



L. Martagon (Turk's Cap Lily) is the type of the 

 great Martagon group of Lilies. It is the only Lily 

 that has been regarded by some botanists as a native 

 in England, but it occurs wild more or less plentifully 

 throughout Central and Southern Europe, and extends 

 into Asia. As a garden plant it has been grown in 

 England for over three centuries, but the recent varieties 

 of it being more attractive in flower have, to a great 

 extent, supplanted it. It is owing more to its graceful 

 growth than to the flower colour that this Lily is a 

 favourite garden plant. It grows from two to five feet 

 high, with whorl of leaves at regular intervals on the 

 stems. The flowers are numerous, borne in terminal 

 pyramid-shaped clusters, small, symmetrical in shape, 

 with reflexed petals of dull purplish pink, marked with 

 spots. Their odour is somewhat unpleasant. The 

 varieties of this Lily are among the finest of Lilies, and 

 all worthy of culture. 



They comprise : Album, with pure white flowers and 

 yellow-tipped stamens. The growth is the same as that 

 of the type, and is one of the rarer of cultivated Lilies. 

 There are two forms of it ; one has the flowers pure 

 white ; the other with a lilac tint, and this is stronger in 

 growth than the other, and with leaves more shining. 



dalmatlcum is a strong grower, and a stately Lily, when 

 seen at^its finest growth. The stems rise as tall as six 

 feet, and the flower clusters are correspondingly large. 

 The flowers are a deep vinous purple of waxy texture, 

 and shine as if varnished. Well grown plants bear from 

 thirty to forty flowers in a head. 



Cattanex is regarded as a form of dalmaticum with 

 darker flowers, almost black, and like dalmaticum has 

 the unopened flower buds enveloped in a whitish cover- 



