86 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Excelsum or Testaceum, a cross between candidum and chalce- 



donicum, is worthy of a place in every garden. It inherits 



all the good qualities of both parents. 



Auratum. The Hill lily and varieties are grand members of the 



family and well repay any care bestowed upon them. These 



with the speciosums delight in peat. The type is well known 



and appreciated. Conspicuous among the varieties are: 



rubro-vittafrum, virginale, JVittci, and platyphyUum. One of the 



finest of the auratum varieties, Parkmani, raised by Mr. Francis 



Parkman of Boston, is almost lost to cultivation in this country. 



Hardly less grand and beautiful are the various forms of speciosum: 



rubrum or roseum, and album are the common varieties, but equally 



easy of culture are the finer ones: ■melpomcne, magnificum, 



Kraetzeri, and Opal. Many of the type of elegans, which now 



includes Thunbergianvm, are of the easiest culture, thriving in any 



soil and under difficulties which would be death to some lilies. 



The sturdiest are robusta, Leonard Joerg, bicolur, atrosanguineum, 



Aurora and Midnight, Alice Wilson (lemon colored, broad-petaled, 



one of the handsomest of the group), Wihoni (the tallest and latest 



to bloom, apricot tinted with purple spots). The most beautiful 



of all is Prince of Orange (a spotted form of a soft pleasing buff 



tint, very dwarf) and Peter Barr, a new and beautiful orange spotted 



form. 



The lily most frequently seen in old gardens is the tiger lily. 

 It will grow and thrive under any amount of neglect, in fact it is 

 naturalized along roadsides in many places on Long Island. In 

 addition to the type, the variety splendens, with taller stems and 

 larger flowers, and the form with double flowers are showy and 

 worthy a place in our gardens. 



The coral lily of Siberia, L. tenuifolium is a graceful and showy 

 lily, blooming from the middle to the last of June. It grows from 

 one to two feet high with six to eight flowers, about two inches across, 

 coral red in color. 



Lilium Batemanniae is a sturdy grower with upright cup-shaped 

 flowers, pure apricot color. A white lily with upright flowers is 

 unknown. 



In 1889 Dr. Henry sent from China to Kew Gardens a new lily 

 which flowered that summer and was named Lilium Henrijl. It is 



