MAY IN THE GARDEN 79 



and copper lily"; Dr. Regel, splendid orange; luteola, 

 bright yellow and reaching a height of four feet; auran- 

 tiaca major, huge apricot-coloured flowers, sweetly 

 scented; and Kwanso, a handsome double-flowered form 

 of fulva. 



The foliage of these so-called lilies is always clean and 

 sightly, and they demand almost nothing of us, growing 

 well in sun or shade, in damp places, or in the borders, 

 where they lend themselves to all sorts of good asso- 

 ciations. Garden Heliotrope is lovely with them and 

 the tall white and "bleak blue" Lupines; The Flag and 

 Siberian Irises seem to belong naturally with them, and 

 if one can stand a perfectly resounding harmony plant 

 them with orange and scarlet Oriental Poppies. I al- 

 ways do myself, and rejoice exceedingly in the vibrant 

 result. 



A lovely picture exists just now in a corner of the 

 garden where a spreading mass of purple Meadow Rue 

 (Thalictrum aquilegifolium) grows in company with 

 white Lupines and a pale yellow Iris called Canary Bird. 

 This Meadow Rue is a fair and elegant plant with cut 

 metallic foliage like that of Columbines and puffs of 

 purple mistlike bloom on leafy stems about four feet tall. 

 The foliage lasts in good condition the summer through, 

 so that it is one of those plants which should be given a 

 prominent place. We have recently made the ac- 

 quaintance of another Thalictrum, said to grow six feet 

 tall, T. glaucum. The foliage of this one is distinctly 



