THE GARDEN AT HOME 



that have been introduced for garden lovers. Yet he 

 may still grow the same old-world kinds of plants with 

 all the advantage that up-to-date varieties possess. 



Let me draw attention to some of the good things 

 many amateurs have missed. All of us grow the old 

 white Cottage Lily (Lilium candidum), and many of us 

 know, if we do not grow, the striking scarlet Martagon 

 Lily called chalcedonicum ; but how comparatively few 

 gardens contain the exquisite fawn-coloured Lily called 

 testaceum, that originated, it is supposed, by a com- 

 mingling of the red and the white ! It is a lovely plant, 

 4 feet or so high, and graceful in the extreme ; a planting 

 of half a dozen or a dozen bulbs together produce a 

 garden picture that long lingers in the memory. Lilium 

 elegans, of small stature but of big blooms, is tolerably 

 common, far commoner, unfortunately, than its variety 

 Prince of Orange, which eclipses it altogether and makes 

 a magnificent show. The old Martagon Lily, with small, 

 dull purple blossoms is perhaps not particularly striking ; 

 but who can justly portray the fascination of its white 

 variety ? This is one of the loveliest little Lilies I know. 

 The golden-rayed Lily of Japan (auratum) is in almost 

 everyone's garden, yet one may go a day's march with- 

 out finding those richly-coloured varieties that put the 

 typical kind in the shade altogether. I refer to rubro- 

 vittatum and platyphyllum, both gorgeously coloured. 



The Montbretia, that gives a most welcome harvest 

 of orange-yellow blossom in August, when many flowers 



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