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LILIUM PYRENAICUM (Pyrenees), Martagon 

 This yellow Lily is often found in cottage gardens. 

 No Lily is more easily grown, but of all its kind it is 

 perhaps the least desirable, for among Lilies it is 

 not of much beauty, and it has a strong faint dis- 

 agreeable smell which makes it unwelcome in most 

 gardens. The stems are about eighteen inches high 

 with some ten flowers on each, 



LILIUM CARNIOLICUM (South-Eastern Europe), 

 Martagon 



A bright turn-cap Lily, something like ckalcedonicum, 

 in colour varying from orange to scarlet. The stems 

 are from two to three feet high. We hear of it doing 

 well in strong clay in Northumberland. 



LILIUM POLYPHYLLUM (Western Himalayas), 



Martagon 



This pretty Lily is not always easy to obtain, but 

 if a better supply were imported, or our growers 

 are able to increase it, it should prove a good plant 

 for our gardens. The white or pale yellow sweet- 

 scented flower is marked with violet, and is in a loose 

 cluster of four to six, on a stem from two to five 

 feet high. We hear of it doing well in North Wales, 

 where it is perfectly hardy ; good drainage and 

 general good management no doubt account for 

 this, for though it will bear frost it is known to be 

 impatient of winter wet. 



In its Indian home it grows in gravel and decayed 



