32 LILIES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



Martagon Lilies. The same distinctive form, also 

 commonly known as turn-cap and turk's-cap, runs 

 through the allied Lilies of many countries, for we 

 have it in the scarlet poinponiufn of northern Italy 

 and the yellow Lily of the Pyrenees, in chalcedonicum 

 of Greece and Asia Minor, in tenuifolium of Siberia, 

 in superbum and Humboldtii of the United States ; 

 all these, with several others, belonging to the great 

 Martagon group. 



Of Martagons proper there are some distinct varie- 

 ties. M. dalmaticum is a strong growing kind with 

 flowers of varying shades of purple ; M. d. Catani has 

 the flower very dark, almost purple-black or crimson- 

 black ; but the greatest treasure is the white, a flower 

 of rare beauty. They like loamy soil, in which they 

 will do almost in any position, but they are finest in 

 cool and damp places, though they do not flourish in 

 the very coldest of our soils and climates. Martagons 

 make no stem roots, rooting only from the bulb. 

 They need not therefore be planted deep. 



LILIUM MONADELPHUM SZOVITSIANUM, syn. 



COLCHICUM (Caucasus), Martagon 



This Lily is so commonly called szovitsianuni that 

 it will be so called throughout this handbook. A 

 grand garden Lily, with bright black-spotted lemon- 

 yellow flowers on strong, rather thick stems, four 

 to five feet high. The type, L. monadelphuni, is also 

 a good thing, but as L. m. szovitsianum is just a good 

 shade better it is named in preference as a garden 

 flower. It is rather strongly scented. 



