lo LILIES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



Z. nepaknse succeeds in the same conditions. The 

 flower is yellow or almost greenish, with purple 

 centre. 



L. philippinense is a graceful plant with a drooping, 

 pure white trumpet eight inches long and six inches 

 wide at the mouth. 



L. sulphureum is a noble Lily of massive texture, 

 the flower seven inches long and as much wide. It 

 is hardy in our best climates. 



L. Lowi has beautiful, white, drooping flowers. 



Those who wish to cultivate these tender Lilies 

 should see them as they are grown in the Himalayan 

 house at Kew, where they are planted out in the 

 borders among the Rhododendrons and Camellias. 

 Here they are more at their ease than in pots, especi- 

 ally L. neilgherrensey which has a way of throwing 

 out the flower-spike horizontally on leaving the bulb 

 and before rising out of the ground. 



LILIUM CANDIDUM (Southern Europe), 



EuUrion 



The White Lily, or Madonna Lily 



If one might have only one Lily in the garden, it 

 would have to be the beautiful old White Lily that has 

 been with us since the end of the sixteenth century. 

 Although we may take it to be the oldest of its kind in 

 cultivation, we do not by any means know all about 

 its wants and ways. For of all Lilies known in gardens 



