34 LILIES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



vegetable soil on northern slopes ; some growers 

 have thought it needs moisture, but Mr. Wilson has 

 flowered it well on a rather dry loamy mound. 



LILIUM TESTACEUM, syn. L. EXCELSUM (Hybrid), 



Martagon 



The Nankeen Lily* 



The beautiful Nankeen Lily is one of the very best 

 of its kind. It is not only of charming form and 

 colour, but it is singularly graceful, and the deep 

 mystery of its origin adds to the interest of a plant 

 which has already every merit that can be desired in 

 a garden flower. It is supposed to be a hybrid 

 between candidu7n and one of the scarlet Martagons, 

 either pomponium or chalcedonicum. The flower is 

 distinctly of the Martagon shape, and it resembles 

 candidum in the disposal of the leaves on the stem and 

 in a certain grace of habit and way of swaying to 

 light airs of wind, and in the fact that it is one of the 

 earliest of Lilies to push up out of the ground. 



It is said that it has never been found wild. But 

 whatever may be its origin or history it is a lovely 

 Lily for our gardens. The name Nankeen Lily is 

 only an approximate description of the colour of the 

 flower, for whereas nankeen is used as a colour word 

 to describe a kind of clear though rather pale washed- 

 out wash-leather colour, there is a tender warmth in 

 addition that must be allowed for in thinking of the 

 colour of this charming Lily. 



It is beautiful in every kind of garden use, though 



