LILIES FOR THE HOME GARDEN. 87 



similar to the speciosums and is popularly known as the yellow specio- 

 sum. Although it has been cultivated for twenty years it is yet 

 rare and high in price. It is very hardy, thriving where speciosums 

 and tigrimims grow. Strong bulbs throw up stems four to six feet 

 high with a wealth of green foliage and a pyramidal corymb of six 

 to ten orange-yellow flowers. 



Lilium Wallacei has a beautiful vermilion orange colored cup- 

 shaped flower, spotted with maroon-colored, raised dots. A late 

 bloomer, very healthy, and of easy culture. 



The true type of Lilium longiflorum is very satisfactory in the 

 garden. The forcing variety, Harrisi is not so amenable to outside 

 culture. 



Lilium Davuricum is a little known lily, often confounded with 

 umbellatum, from which it is distinct. It resembles philadelphicum, 

 more than umbellatum. A good grower with six to eight erect 

 scarlet flowers with black spots; blooming in July. 



Lilium Hansoni is one of the harbingers of spring, starting into 

 growth the first warm days. It is of easy culture and very attractive. 

 Of our many native lilies, but few will thrive well under ordinary 

 treatment. The following succeed best : The superbum or meadow 

 Turk's cap is a grand plant when established and w r ell fed. It 

 grows from four to six feet tall and bears from six to twenty-five 

 flowers. The graceful meadow lily, Lilium canadensc and varieties 

 flu rum, pure yellow, and rubrum, dark red, grow and flower well in 

 cultivation. 



The panther lily, Lilium pardalinum, a native of California, 

 yields readily to cultivation and is very showy when established. 



Many other beautiful lilies will repay the cultivator for the trouble 

 bestowed, but the foregoing list will afford a succession of bloom 

 and well represents the lily family in the home garden. 



Discussion. 



"William N. Craig referred to the difficulty in growing Lilium 

 caudidum out of doors on account of its susceptibility to disease. 

 He stated that for a good many years he had seen no disease on 

 plants grown in pots under glass. Good spikes would carry 10 to 



