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with yellow flowers and bright red anthers ; this is a 

 perfect gem, and should not be omitted in any shrubbery; 

 there are also varieties with flowers of cardinal, vermilion 

 and cinnabar red : L. carniolicum, chalcedonicum and 

 pomponium rubrum, all which do well in any light and 

 deep soil, if a little shade can be given to them. The 

 above named lilies belong to the Turk's-cap group, and 

 are beautiful, decorative plants, deserving a place in 

 every garden, as a kindly, shaded corner can always be 

 found under trees and rough undergrowth; the most 

 meritorious, JVlarlagon and pyrenaicum, do not require 

 the least attention. 



Paradisia Liliastrum 



"Eng. : St. -Bruno's Lily; Tr. : Paradisic, Lis de St. -Bruno ; 

 Ger. : Trichterlilie. 



This (PL XCJV) is a truly (or rather as falsely) the 

 Lily of the Alps as the Rhododendron is the Rose, a 

 lily pure and spotless, intoxicatingly sweet, with beautiful 

 and large white corolla, six golden stamens, inflorescence 

 racemose, proudly set in the heart of the grassy slopes it 

 Joves and where it flowers in July. Native of the Alps 

 and Jura; 1 200-2000 m. Easily grown in any lightish 

 soil and sunny position. For some years we have had at 

 Floraire a magnificent variety with immense flowers not 

 falling far short of the white Madonna Lily. 



Jlnthericum Liliago (Paradisia Li Ha go ; St. Bernard's 

 Lily) (PI. XCIV) differs from the above in taller, 

 branching stems, and smaller flowers. Grows in lower 

 districts, on warm and rocky slopes of the mountain zone. 

 Lastly, on dry and sunny limestone banks of all the lower 

 hills, one finds A. racemosum, known in French Switz- 

 erland as "Lis des Rochers", and at Fribourg as "J'Herbe 



