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They are good in the border, and likewise in isolated 

 clumps at the waterside and in the wild garden. The 

 foliage alone is handsome. The old tall species varia, 

 nobilis and grandis are excellent. Novelty-lovers will 

 plant Goldelse, a pale yellow of medium height ; Chloris, 

 old gold, medium height ; Lemon Queen, pale yellow ; 

 and Rufus, red and yellow. The Torch Lilies like a deep 

 moist soil, and may be propagated by splitting up the 

 rootstocks when offsets form 



LILIES. New Lilies do not come rapidly, for the world 

 has been well ransacked for species of so popular a flower, 

 and it has not given anything finer than the old auratum 

 and its varieties, chalcedonicum, elegans, croceum, 

 umbellatum, speciosum, giganteum, candidum, longi- 

 florum and others whose names are familiar. Leu- 

 canthemum is a good species from North- West China with 

 greenish white, purple-tinged flowers of the form of 

 Harrisi, height five to six feet. The variety of tigrinum 

 named Fortunei is becoming one of the most popular of 

 Lilies ; when in the bud stage it is a long cone, which 

 expands into a large red and black flower ; the increasing 

 favour which is given to this Lily is certainly due in con- 

 siderable part to its great vigour and remarkable freedom 

 of flowering. It is worth noting that one of the Lilies of 

 comparatively recent introduction, rubellum, which has 

 bright pink, funnel-shaped flowers, and was at first 

 looked upon as mainly suitable for pot culture, has proved 

 to be an excellent plant for growing under trees. As 

 it is a really beautiful flower, and the number of good 

 plants which will thrive under trees is limited, this point 

 in its favour may be legitimately emphasized. In this 

 connection, too, the liking of the noble giganteum for a 

 shady, sheltered place among, if not actually under, trees 



