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soil is for moist peat with a mixture of sand and leaf- 

 mold, and it particularly requires good drainage and 

 partial shade. This fine Lily grows from five to eight 

 feet tall and is capable of bearing twenty-five superb 

 white, gold-banded blossoms on a single stalk; it is also 

 capable of bearing just one, as I know from sad ex- 

 perience. It blooms in late July and August. 



These are but a few of the Lilies at our command, but 

 it is as far as I have got with the Lily lists. The follow- 

 ing is a list of those sorts which nearly all authorities 

 agree that we may attempt with a reasonable assurance 

 of success: 



Lilium Batemanniae Lilium Martagon 



Brownii " monadelphum 



bulbiferum " pardalinum 



canadense " philadelphicum 



candidum " pomponium 



chalcedonicum " pyrenaicum 



croceum speciosum 



" dauricum " superbum 



elegans " tenuifolium 



Grayi " testaceum 



Hansoni " tigrinum 



Henry i " Washingtonianum 



" Humboldtii 



