i6 LILIES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



" Some clumps were planted in deep shade of a 

 wood, some others in partial shade. Both bloomed 

 thoroughly well, but those with most light had the 

 highest colour." 



LILIUM PARRYI (California), Eulirion 



A pale yellow Lily of great beauty ; a plant for 

 cool damp peat, though it has been found to do 

 well in peaty, well-drained soil that has but little 

 moisture. 



The pale citron colour is very beautiful, and the 

 slender stem, four to six feet high, carries the graceful 

 hanging flowers, with their conspicuous brown anthers, 

 on stalks from four to six inches long. 



The root is not a round bulb, but is inclined to be 

 rhizomatous, though not so distinctly so as in another 

 American Lily, Z. pardalinum. It has a delicate and 

 delicious scent, not unlike that of auratum, but less 

 heavy and overpowering. 



This Lily has not as yet been much grown ; a 

 highly favourable account of it from a careful 

 amateur in Kent should be an encouragement to 

 try it in all gardens where the suitable conditions of 

 peat and moisture can be obtained. 



Mr. Carl Purdy says L. Parryi is not a bog plant. 

 Its home in California is at an elevation of from 

 seven to ten thousand feet, near streams and in alpine 

 meadows, in a soil two-thirds granitic sand and one- 

 third peat or mould. 



