Lilium Lo7igiflorum. 



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LILIUM LONGIFLORUM. 



By Francis Parkman, Jamaica Plain, Mass. 



The long-flowered Japan lily (^Lilium longiflormn) is tolerably well 

 known, yet not so well as it deserves to be. Its pure-white flowers, eight 



Lilium Longiflorum. 



or ten inches long, and shaped like a trumpet, are as beautiful, or nearly 

 so, as those of the common garden lily. The bulbs are rather small, and 



