INTRODUCTION 



Lilies, comprising as they do, some of the most 

 stately and beautiful of garden flowers, are not nearly 

 so much grown in gardens as their beauty deserves. 

 One may go through many a rather large place and not 

 see a Lily from one end to the other, and in spite of the 

 enormous and ever-increasing interest in gardens and 

 flowers of these days, a large proportion of the people 

 who are taking a practical interest in horticulture 

 hardly as yet know one Lily from another. 



The present writer and compiler, who has been a 

 working amateur for thirty years, has keenly felt the 

 want of a short, concise, illustrated handbook ; such 

 a book as will just tell amateurs in the plainest way 

 what they are most likely to want to know about 

 Lilies. Such a book has therefore been prepared in 

 the form of the present volume, in which the informa- 

 tion has been condensed and put as shortly as possible 

 for greater simplicity and ease of reference. 



Early in 1900 the editors of The Garden, feeling 

 that it was desirable to encourage the growth of these 

 good plants, sent out circulars to some thirty known 

 growers of Lilies, in order to ascertain firstly what 



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